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cally, and on the other phonetically. Thus there are two different 
ideographs given for the word son. The word for 'landmark' is 
written syllabically on the seven-lined tablet, thus : ku-dur-ri ; on 
the three-lined tablet it is written ideographically. The word 
nasaru, 'to protect,' is written also in two different ways. 'And' 
is represented by two ideographs, as is also the word 'Babylon.' 
The transcription, with the translation, of the seven-lined tablet 
is as follows : 
1. ilu Nabu — ku- dur- ri- usur 
Nebuchadnezzar. 
2. sar Babili 
King of Babylon. 
3. za- ni- in E- sag- ila 
Restorer of the temple Sag- ila. 
4. u E- zi- da 
And of the temple Zida. 
5. ablu a- sa- ri- du 
son eldest 
6. sd ilu Nabu- abal- usur 
of Nabopolassar. 
7. sar Babili 
King of Babylon. 
The translation thus reads, " Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 
restorer of the two temples Sagila and Zida, the eldest son of 
Nabopolassar, king of Babylon." I may here point out what 
characters are indistinct in the three-lined tablet, by writing down 
the words of the original : 
1. ilu Nabu- kudurri- usur sar Bab- ilu (?) ki za- [ni- in] 
2. E- sag- ila u E- zi- da [ablu a- sa- ri- du] 
3. sa ilu Nabu- abal- usur sar Babili. 
The words in italic are very faint on the tablet ; whereas those 
in brackets I supply without the slightest doubt as to their being 
what was on the tablet. 
NOTES ON THE TEXT. 
Nabu = ' the god Nebo, the Babylonian Mercury ; ' he is patron 
of the art of writing. In a tablet printed in my work, published 
for the Hibbert Trustees by Williams and Norgate, Nebo is called 
dupsar gimri, ' the scribe of all ' ; usur, imperative of a verb 
nasaru, ' to protect ; ' kudurru = ' landmark ; ' so that the name 
