RIMB 2.4.4 (Marduk)

SEAL no. 7547 · Hymns and Prayers · Prayer of Nebuchadnezzar I to Marduk · Unknown · 8 lines · 24 words · 62 signs · 7 Sumerograms

Transliteration

1 te-le-eʾ-e ^dMarduk(AMAR.UTU)

2 mut-nen-na-a e-ṭe₄-ra!(NA)

3 muš-te-eʾ-ú aš-ra-ti-ka

4 eli(UGU) na-ki-ri šu-zu-uz-za

5 ⌈i⌉-zi-qa ša-ra-ka a-se-ʾi na-ak-⌈ri⌉-ia

6 du-un-ni-in kak-ki-ia-ma

7 lu-šam-qí-ta ge-ri-ia

8 ša ^dNabû(AG)-ku-dúr-ri-uṣur(ÙRU) šar(LUGAL) kiššati(ŠÁR)

Translation

1 You are able, o Marduk,

2 to rescue the prayerful,

3 to make him who seeks out your places

4 stand over the enemies.

5 Your breeze wafted to me. I crush my enemies.

6 Make strong my weapons,

7 that I might overthrow my foes!

8 (Property of) Nebuchadnezzar, king of the world.

Michael P. Streck and Nathan Wasserman, Sources of Early Akkadian Literature (SEAL), seal.huji.ac.il. No commercial use is allowed. Published under CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives). Reproduced unmodified. Cite as SEAL no. 7547; view on seal.huji.ac.il.