Nabonidus & Exaltation of Sîn

Nabû-na’id šar Bābili mārua ana Sîn bēliya apqid adi balṭu lā iḫaṭṭakka Nabonidus, king of Babylon, my son, to Sîn my lord I have devoted. So long as he is alive let him not offend against you.1 These are the words of Adad-gûppî, mother of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus. As scholar Beaulieu mentions, Nabonidus (Akkad. …