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CT 46, 55 (P285861)

Literary, Old Babylonian, Nineveh · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CT 46, 55
ID	P285861
Museum no.	BM 123379
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Literary
Find spot	Nineveh
Coordinates	36.3582, 43.1621

Machine English (draft)

Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	Machine English (draft)
obverse 1	... the upper side
obverse 2	...... the... of heaven
reverse 4'	For my reading, he established it in my palace.
obverse 9	... the heavens
obverse 8	... 2 hundred 16 thousand dnu
reverse 2'	the wisdom of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards your shrine, as many as there are
obverse 6	40 minas of silver, 14/4?..., 32 thousand (sila3)
obverse 5	to the... of your border
obverse 10	until(?) the irat(?) of the earth
obverse 4	from the threshing floor
reverse 1'	Whoever among the kings who preceded me does not honor this work,
reverse 3'	I wrote, collated, and collated it on a tablet.
obverse 3	20 minas of kiln, 2 ewes,
obverse 7	from the middle? of heaven to your outskirts

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
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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