Inscriptions

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The inscription is attested by three clay cylinders, now part of the James B. Nies collection (ex. 1) and the Babylonian collection (ex. 2) of the Yale University Library and of the British Museum collection (ex. 3). The original provenance of these cylinders is unknown, since all the exemplars were purchased, but it is probable that they originally came from Uruk in consideration of the content of the inscription.
In fact, the Akkadian text, written in contemporary Babylonian script and with the same arrangement on the three exemplars, records the renovation of the Akītu temple of the goddess Uṣur-amāssu at Uruk patronised by two individuals, Bēl-ibni and Nabû-zēra-ušabši, in the fifth year of the king Nabû-naṣir. The Akītu, presented as turned into ruins and forgotten by royal commissioners, was the temple in which the celebration of the New Year's festival traditionally took place.

Access the composite text [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/Q006304] of Nabû-nāṣir 2001.

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• Keiser 1920 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#keiser1920], no. 31 (exs. 1-2, edition)
• Brinkman 1969-1970 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1969-1970], pp. 40-48 (exs. 1-3, edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 127-129 (edition)

• Keiser 1920 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#keiser1920], no. 31 (ex. 1, copy)
• Stephens 1937 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#stephens1937], no. 74 (ex. 2, copy)

• Ungnad 1922 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#ungnad1922b], p. 70 (exs. 1-2, study)
• Oppenheim 1940 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#oppenheim1940], pp. 27-28 (ex. 1, study to line 3)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 233 and 356-357 no. 33.2.3 (exs. 1-3, study)
• Brinkman 1969-1970 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1969-1970], pp. 39-40 and 48-50 (exs. 1-3, study)

Giulia Lentini

Giulia Lentini, 'Inscriptions', RIBo, Babylon 6: The Inscriptions of the Period of the Uncertain Dynasties, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2018 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon6/earlyfirstmillenniumrulers/nabunasir/inscriptions/]