RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

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The world it comes from

Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P453289)

P453288 · ~2270 BCE

Kress 218

P453292 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000784, ex. 043

P453297 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000347, ex. 017

P453269 · ~1300 BCE

Fs Van Lerberghe 273-275, 278

Transliteration

[na3-nig2-du]-uri3# _lugal_ babila#[ za-nin]
[e2-sag-il2] e2#-zi-da _ibila# [sag-kal]_
[sza na3-a-uri3] _lugal#_ babila#[]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Kress 219 (private: anonymous, Germany) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P453289). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P453289..

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