Of the nine Akkadian inscriptions of Nabopolassar edited on the "Babylon 7" [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/] sub-project, score transliterations of two texts inscribed on clay cylinders are provided on this site. Some information on those inscriptions are provided below. To access the Neriglissar score transliterations, click on one of the "score" links below, click here [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/bab7scores/corpus/], or click on the "Browse Online Scores Corpus" link to the left.
At present, nine Akkadian inscriptions of Neriglissar are known. These officially commissioned texts are preserved on fourteen two-column (barrel) cylinders, seven bricks, and an alabaster vase. Many of the objects were discovered at Babylon, most being unearthed during Koldewey's excavations, while only a few originate from other sites, the Elamite city Susa in particular; two of the cylinder fragments may have come from Sippar. The inscriptions themselves record several building projects at or near Babylon and at Sippar, including the renovation of parts of Marduk's temple Esagil ("House Whose Top is High"), the restoration of a wing of a royal palace that had fallen into the Euphrates River and the securing of that watercourse's banks, and the repair of Šamaš's ziggurat Ekunankuga ("House, Pure Sanctuary of Heaven"). One fragmentarily preserved text of this king is unusual in that it records a military expedition in detail; that inscription may have recorded Nerliglissar's campaign to Cilicia, which took place during his third regnal year (557 BC).
Two large, two-column clay cylinders are inscribed with a text of Neriglissar recording restorations that he had made to part of Marduk's temple at Babylon, Esagil ("House Whose Top is High"); the script of one exemplar is archaizing Neo-Babylonian, while that of the other is contemporary Neo-Babylonian. The king states that he rebuilt one of the temple's enclosure walls since it had fallen into disrepair and was near collapsing; the work took place near to where the ramku- and kiništu-priests of Esagil lived. Neriglissar claims to have laid the new foundations of the wall in the exact same spot as the previous foundations. The inscription is referred to as "Neriglissar Zylinder II, 1," "[Neriglissar] Cylinder C1," or "the Esagil Inscription" in previous studies and editions.
Access the score [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/bab7scores/Q005386/score] or the composite text [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/Q005386/] of Neriglissar 01.
For further details on this inscription, click here [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/neriglissar560556bc/inscriptions/index.html#neriglissar01].
Eight two-column clay cylinders are inscribed with an Akkadian text of Neriglissar written in contemporary Neo-Babylonian script. The inscription records the details of several projects undertaken by this ruler at Babylon: (1) the manufacture of copper mušḫuššu-dragons for a few prominent gateways of Marduk's temple Esagil ("House Whose Top is High"); (2) the plating and decoration of the Dais of Destinies with gold and elaborate ornaments; (3) the renovation and strengthening of the banks of the Libil-ḫegalla canal (Babylon's eastern canal); and (4) the repair of a wing of the royal palace that had collapsed into the Euphrates River. With regard to the last accomplishment, Neriglissar states that he had his workmen reinforce the banks of the Euphrates with bitumen and baked bricks in order to prevent similar collapses from happening in the future. This text is cited in previous literature as "Neriglissar Zylinder II, 3" or "[Neriglissar] Cylinder C23," or "the Royal Palace Inscription."
Access the score [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/bab7scores/Q005388/score] or the composite text [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/Q005388/] of Neriglissar 03.
For further details on this inscription, click here [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/neriglissar560556bc/inscriptions/index.html#neriglissar03].
Jamie Novotny
Jamie Novotny, 'Information on Neriglissar Scores', RIBo, Babylon 7 Scores: Scores of the Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2016 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/bab7scores/neriglissarscores/]