Nabu / Nebo Quotes From Texts

 

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue)

 

         “Nabu, scribe of Esagila, who organizes the whole of heaven and earth,

         who directs everything, who ordains kingship,

         will declare the treaties of his land void, and will decree hostility …”

        

         “Nabû returned to Esagila,

         sheep offerings in front of Bêl and the god Mârbîti …”

 

           “and Ezida I transported them. In the month of Addaru, on the 20th day,

           of year 43 (SE, 27 March 268 BCE) , I laid the foundation of Ezida,

           the true temple, the temple of Nabû, which is in Borsippa.

           O Nabû, lofty son, the wise one of the gods, the proud one,

           who is eminently worthy of praise, firstborn son of Marduk, offspring of Erûa,

            (Sarpanit) the queen, who creates offspring, “and Ezida.

            O Nabû, foremost son, when you enter Ezida, the true house,

           may good (fate) for Antiochus, king of (all) countries, king Seleucus, his son,

           (and) Stratonice, his consort, the queen,

           may their good (fate), be established by your command (lit: in/by your mouth) …”

 

Nebo Quote From Text

Nebo = Marduk‘s 3rd Son Nabu

symbolized as six-pointed star symbol of Mars

 

        “Borsippa, the city of the warrior of the [god]s, the angel (?) supreme.

         He entered also into Ê-Zida (Nabu’s temple in Borsippa) …

         he prostrated himself before the temple of his immutable oracle,

         and in the presence of Nebo and Nana (Nannar) the gods his lords …”