Official or display knob excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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© Penn Museum
Transliteration
object knob
surface a
1. {d}en-lil2 lugal-a-ni-ir
en: To Enlil, his lord,
2. bur-na-bu-ri-ia-asz
en: did Burnaburiaš,
3. lugal babila2{ki}
en: king of Babylon,
4. nam-ti-la-a-ni-sze3
en: for the sake of his life
5. in-na-an-ba
en: donate (this).
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