RIBo, Babylon 7: The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, “Nabonidus 2001 (the Harran stele of Adad-guppi), column ii line 40b”
“During the twenty-one years of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, the forty-three years of Nebuchadnezzar (II), son of Nabopolassar, and the four years of Neriglissar, king of Babylon, (when) th(ose three kings) exercised kingship, I whole heartedly revered them ... for sixty-eight years”
A second, independent summation in the same inscription: 21 + 43 + 4 = 68 years of continuous service under three named Babylonian kings.
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Provenance and verification note for RIBo, Babylon 7: The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, Nabonidus 2001 (the Harran stele of Adad-guppi), column ii line 40b
Confidence note. Read in the Oracc HTML edition on 19 September 2026, with the Akkadian ('ina 21 MU.MES ... ina 43 MU.MES') alongside the translation.
Scan provenance. Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online (RIBo), Babylon 7, edited by Frauke Weiershaeuser and Jamie Novotny for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative at LMU Munich; CC BY-SA 3.0.
Corroborated by. src-chr-e-oracc-adadguppi-i29
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chr-e-oracc-adadguppi-ii40