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The following excerpts from the Harran Stela are from the translation of C. J. Gadd, as given in Pritchard's ''Ancient Near Eastern Texts''. The first quote shows Nabonidus's devotion to Sin, and also shows that Nabonidus was “one who has nobody,” i.e. he was not of any royal house, and yet he became king. Other sources relate that he was a co-conspirator in the coup that executed(This is) the great miracle of Sin that none of the (other) gods and goddesses knew (how to achieve), that has not happened in the country from the days of old, that the people of the country have (not) observed nor written down on clay tables to be preserved for eternity, that (you), Sin, the lord of all the gods and goddesses residing in heaven, have come down from heaven to (me) Nabonidus, king of Babylon! For me, Nabonidus, the lonely one who has nobody, in whose (text: my) heart was not thought of kingship, the gods and goddesses prayed (to Sin) and called me to kingship. At midnight, he (Sin) made me have a dream and said (in the dream) as follows: “Rebuild speedily Ehulhul, the temple of Sin in Harran, and I will hand over to you all the countries.In the third year of his reign, Nabonidus left Babylon to carry out his commission of rebuilding the Ehulhul temple to Sin in Harran, and apparently also to fight the hostile Arabs in the area. At that time, he installed his oldest son
Upon the command of Sin <> Ishtar, the Lady-of-Battle, without whom neither hostilities nor reconciliation can occur in the country and no battle can be fought, extended her protection (lit.: hand) over them, and the king of Egypt, the Medes and the land of the Arabs, all the hostile kings, were sending me messages of reconciliation and friendship. As to the land of the Arabs which s the eternal enemy S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History ...of Babylonia nd whichwas (always) ''ready'' to rob and carry off its possession, Nergal broke their weapons upon the order of Sin, and they all bowed down at my feet.
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* {{Cite journal , last=Gadd , first=C. J. , date=1958 , title=The Harran Inscriptions of Nabonidus , url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/anatolian-studies/article/abs/harran-inscriptions-of-nabonidus/3B52586A0B5A294459A200F2E8F60A28 , journal=Anatolian Studies , language=en , volume=8 , pages=35–92 , doi=10.2307/3642415 , issn=2048-0849 6th-century BC works Akkadian inscriptions Archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire Cyrus the Great Nabonidus