As is evident from its title, this volume includes editions of all of the known royal inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian kings Amēl-Marduk, Neriglissar, and Nabonidus. Since no official inscriptions of Lâbâši-Marduk have yet been discovered, no texts of his are edited in RINBE 2; this is also why his name is not included in the book's title.
In total, eighty-seven Akkadian inscriptions are included here. The majority of these texts have been carefully edited in two scholarly monographs: Da Riva, SANER 3 and Schaudig, Inschriften Nabonids. Since the publication of those books, eighteen additional inscribed objects of Nabonidus, including a badly damaged stele from Tēmā (Nabonidus 56) and a heavily weathered rock relief from Padakku (Nabonidus 54), have come to light. Five of these have already been published, while the others (Nabonidus 11–12, 21, 30, 41–42, 58–61, 1002, and 1006–1007) have not.[[105]] All of these new inscriptions are edited here. For further details about the inscriptions included in this volume, see the Survey of the Inscribed Objects section below.
105 For the published texts, see Frame in Spar, CTMMA 4 no. 176; Schaudig, AAE 17 (2006) pp. 169–174; Hausleiter and Schaudig, ZOrA 9 (2016) pp. 224–240; and in Hausleiter, ATLAL 25 (2018) pp. 99–100 and pl. 2.20 figs. c–e. Some of the previously unpublished Babylonian inscriptions were mentioned in Da Riva, GMTR 4 (p. 131). Four soon-to-be-published inscriptions from Tēmā were included here courtesy of H. Schaudig (Schaudig in Eichmann and Hausleiter, Tayma 2 nos. 3–6).
Frauke Weiershäuser & Jamie Novotny
Frauke Weiershäuser & Jamie Novotny, 'Texts Included in RINBE 2', RIBo, Babylon 7: The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2022 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/rinbe2introduction/textsincludedinrinbe2/]