(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…mixed-breed demigods in teal)
1st Inscription on a Brick:
For the god Nanna (Nannar), his lord: Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, king of the world,
king of Ur, (5) king of Babylon, king of Sumer (and) Akkad, who provides for Ur,
(E-kish-nugal, Nannar’s ziggurat temple residence in Ur)
restorer of Ekišnugal, (re)built (and) restored Eganunmaḫ, (10) the temple which had collapsed due to old age,
(and) dedicated to him (this) door socket, the name of whose stone is ‟It shines (metals).”
2nd Inscription on a Cylinder:
For the god Nanna (Nannar / Sin), lord of the foundation of heaven (and) netherworld,
noble …, great light, …, king …, his lord:
(Babylonian semi-divine blooded King Marduk-nadin-ahhe)
Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, pious prince, …, shepherd …, the lord fitted for the god EN.DIŠ.DIŠ, lord … of Ur (is Nannar),
…, king […], king […], king of Sumer (and) Akkad, king of the [four] quarters (of the world),
whose deeds are pleasing to the god Sîn (and) the great gods, …[Su]me[r (and)] Akkad, …
At that time, the great oven of the shrine of the god Sîn,
where all the morning and evening meals of the gods … the great oven, its great roaring inside it …
(Ninsun, semi-divine descendant-king, & Nannar seated, god of Ur)
On account of this, [… may] the god Sîn (Nannar), […] lord […] kingship … grant to Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē,
his obedient prince, the shepherd who restores … a long life-span (and) a reign …!
3rd Inscription on a Dagger:
(Property) of Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, king of the world, son of Ninurta-nādin-šumi, king of Babylon.
4th Inscription on a Dagger:
(Property) of Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, king of the world, king of Babylon, king of Sumer (and) Akkad.