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CT 51, 183 (P286044)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 51, 183 |
|---|---|
| ID | P286044 |
| Museum no. | BM 134576 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | Incantation: At sunset, it is a lullaby. |
| 6' | adara sheep, goats of the mountain range |
| 9' | may he not bring a reed basket for you |
| 1' | ... a good word |
| 12' | ...... |
| 11' | Asar gave advice to its adara sheep |
| 4' | is a sheep of life |
| 8' | to bring the adara sheep to the nether world |
| 3' | May the lord of the Enun |
| 10' | he decreed a fate for him (against him) |
| 2' | the incantation of Eridu |
| 7' | adara sheep grown in the plain |
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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