Praise of Nabu for Samas-suma-ukin (05)

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(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue mixed-breed demigods in teal)

         

               (Marduk;                                          Marduk & his giant mixed-breed Babylonian king, etc.)

        For the star of the god Marduk, mighty … exalted, [br]ight, the god Šiḫṭu, (unidentified)

        lord of catchwater, spring … (and) wide seas, who produces (both) rain and flood,

            (Nergal, Lord over deceased earthlings;  Nergal, Lord of Netherworld)

        the god Imdudu (Nergal), who roams through heaven and netherworld,

        lord of the wind blast … and storm, who establishes the inundation,

           (Nabu statue, actual size of the giant god)

        the god Nabû, the bright one who holds the lead-rope of earth and netherworld,

        star of East and West …, at whose appearance the Igīgū gods and the Anunnakū gods hap[pily] …

           (Ezida with Borsippa way down below the mud-brick mountain)

        who dwells in Ezida, which is inside Borsippa, [(…) his lord]:

        Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, viceroy of Babylon […] had (this) … made and a boat … it was brought with difficulty …

        procession … for the conveyance of his great lordship, (for his) going and returning […,

        the god Šidd]ukišarra (unidentified), who administers all of heaven and netherworld

        for his descent where water, the life of the land, the well-being of the house …[…]

          (Marduk upon Mushhushu, Inanna & mixed-breed Babylonian king)

        … august, splendid, son of the god Asari (Marduk), who has bro[ad understanding …],

        the god Mudugasâ (Ningishzidda), supreme, ruler … lord of ingenious things, martial,

         

          (semi-divine king Gudea, Ningishzidda, & Dumuzi                   Ningishzidda places the monuments foundation pegs, & Ninsun)

        who in counsel […] expert of all the temp[les] …[…] the one who makes opposing forces agree,

        who administers everything […], who has broad understanding,

          (Nabu the scribe on door of US Congress)  (Esagila over Babylon)

        scribe of Esagila, who wa[tches ov]er the Igīgū gods and [the Anunnakū gods],

        who bears the tablet of the fates of the great gods, who supervises every[thing], capable, wise,

           (Nabu’s Ezida looking over Borsippa)

        god who[se] rule is pre-eminent, lord of Borsippa, who dwells in Ezida, the great lord [his] l[ord],

         Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, viceroy [of Babylon], king of the land of Sumer and Akk[ad]

        had (this object) of 18 1/2 cubits made […].

        [In order] to ensure his good health, to prolong his days […] may he determine as his fate!

           (brother mixed-breeds Ashurbanipal & Samas-suma-ukin)

        […] … […] … […] … Ashurbanipal [… Šama]š-šuma-ukīn, kin[g …]