PBS 1/1, 18 (P257782)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, unclear · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PBS 1/1, 18 |
|---|---|
| ID | P257782 |
| Museum no. | CBS 00336 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | unclear |
English translation
By Myhrman, David W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1' | [. . . out]standing [. . .] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [. . . learn]ed, who embod[ies (lit. collects) . . .] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [. . . the bo]nd of the Lalgar, who looks [after ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [. . .] of the Igigi, inspector of the [Anunnaki] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [. . .] judgment (and) cases in the firmament [. . .] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [whose command A]nu, Enlil, and Ea hears, |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | Whose progenitor (is) [Marduk], king of the gods, whose word is accep[ted], |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [. . .] fates are not decreed, [. . .] are not given. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [. . .] Babylon, who loves Esag[ila], |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [. . . of Bor]sippa, the support of Ezida, |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [. . . who decr]ees the fate[s], |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [Who p]reserves live[s], |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | [Who leng]thens the days, who gives lif[e], |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | [Who heals] the wound, who restores [the dead], |
| Obverse [14:15] o 15'15'–o 15'15' | [The mercif]ul, relenting one, who spares lif[e], |
| Obverse [15:16] o 16'16'–o 16'16' | [I], your servant, Shamash-shum-uk[in], |
| Obverse [16:17] o 17'17'–o 17'17' | [. . .] exhausted, on whom illness has befa[llen], |
| Obverse [17:18] o 18'18'–o 18'18' | [. . .] silence and dis[tress], |
| Obverse [18:19] o 19'19'–o 19'19' | [. . . my] lim[bs . . .] |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [... šu]-⸢tu-qu⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [... pal-ku]-u₂ ha-⸢mi₃⸣-[im ...] | |
| 3' | [... mar]-⸢kas⸣ lal₃-gar pa-qi₂-[id ...] | |
| 4' | [...] {d}i₂-gi₃-gi₃ a-ši-ru {d}[a-nun-na-ki] | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢šip⸣-ṭi EŠ.BAR bu-ru-me [...] | |
| 6' | [ša₂ {d}a]-⸢num⸣ {d}EN.LIL₂ u {d}e₂-a še-⸢mu-u₂⸣ [zi-kir-šu₂] | |
| 7' | {[d}AMAR.UTU] ⸢LUGAL DINGIR.ME⸣ za-ru-šu₂ a-mat-su ma-ag-[rat] | |
| 8' | [...] šim-tu₂ la iš-šim-mu la in-nam-di-nu [...] | |
| 9' | [...] x E{ki} ra-ʾ-im e₂-sag-[il₂] | |
| 10' | [... bar]-sip{ki} tukul-ti e₂-zi-da | |
| 11' | [... ša]-i-mu NAM-[MEŠ] | |
| 12' | [mu]-⸢šal⸣-lim na-piš-[ti] | |
| 13' | [mu-ur]-⸢rik⸣ u₄-me qa-i-šu ba-la₂-[ṭi] | |
| 14' | [mu-ṭib] ⸢sim⸣-mu ⸢mu-bal⸣-liṭ {⸢lu⸣}[UŠ₂] | |
| 15' | [re-me-nu]-u ta-a-a-ri ga-mil ⸢ZI⸣{[ti₃]} | |
| 16' | [a-na-ku] ⸢IR₃⸣-ka {m}{d}GIŠ.ŠIR.MU.GI.[NA] | |
| 17' | [...] ⸢šu⸣-nu-hu ša₂ NIG₂.GIG mah-[ra-tan-ni] | |
| 18' | [...] ⸢x⸣ qu₂-lu₄ u ⸢ta⸣-[ni-hu] | |
| 19' | [x x]-⸢bu meš⸣-[re-ti-ia] | |
| 20' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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