Measurements of the City Walls of Babylon C


Obverse
o 1o 1	⸢12 di⸣-ma-a-tum TA GÚ ÍD.BURANUN	[Twe]lve t[o]wers from the bank of the Euphrates
o 22	a-di KÁ.GAL šá ÍD-šu-ú-ḫi	to the Šūḫi Canal Gate.
o 33	18 di-ma-a-tum TA sip-pi KÁ.GAL	Eighteen towers from the doorpost of
o 44	šá ÍD-šu-ú-ḫi a-di KI^et kisal-lu šá LÚ.ŠÀ.TAM	the Šūḫi Canal Gate to the district of the Court of the Administrator.
o 55	8 di-ma-a-tum TA KI^et kisal-lu	Eight towers from the district of the Court
o 66	šá LÚ.ŠÀ.TAM a-di sip-pi KÁ.GAL šá ÍD-^dDI.KU₅	of the Administrator to the doorpost of the Madānu Canal Gate.
o 77	29 di-ma-a-tum TA KÁ.GAL šá ÍD-^dDI.KU₅	Twenty-nine towers from the Madānu Canal Gate
o 88	a-di DUR šá KÁ.GAL-giš-šú	to the enclosure of the Giššu Gate.
o 99	23 di-ma-a-tum TA KÁ.GAL-giš-šú	Twenty-three towers from the Giššu Gate
o 1010	a-di UGU di-im-tum e-le-ni-⸢tum⸣	up to the upp[er] tower
o 1111	šá KÁ.GAL-^dUTU-DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣	of the Sun of the God[s] Gate.
Reverse
r 12r 12	30 di-ma-a-tum TA UGU	Thirty towers from
r 1313	di-im-tum e-le-ni-tum	the upper tower
r 1414	šá KÁ.GAL-^dUTU-DINGIR.MEŠ	of the Sun of the Gods Gate
r 1515	a-di KÁ.GAL-šá-pat-tam-tum	to the Seashore Gate.

Adapted from A.R. George, Babylonian Topographical Texts (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 40), 1992. Translated and lemmatized by Giulia Lentini, 2019-2020, as part of the LMU-Munich-based project Living Among Ruins (directed by Karen Radner and Jamie Novotny), which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung as part of the Lost Cities program (coordinated by Martin Zimmermann and Andreas Beyer). Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/btto/Q007974/.