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CT 51, 190 (P286051)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 51, 190 |
|---|---|
| ID | P286051 |
| Museum no. | BM 121037 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 11' | dates, eu-flour, you strew. |
| reverse 10 | ... evil, evil, evil, |
| reverse 1 | May the great gods see you. |
| obverse 1' | ... to the head |
| reverse 8 | May your praises be sweet. |
| obverse 3' | ... and in the steppe in water |
| reverse 3 | Witness: Nanna, gods of heaven and earth, exorcist. |
| obverse 4' | He gave me a gift, a reed mat, a threshing floor |
| reverse 9 | is favourable and you recite the incantation. |
| obverse 6' | May he bring (them) to the Apsu. |
| obverse 13' | In the presence of Sin, Zeru, Nanna, |
| reverse 11 | the eclipse will not approach him. |
| obverse 7' | (If) he is ill three times and he does not look behind him. |
| reverse 5 | May it not approach me, may it not approach me. |
| obverse 5' | eponym year of the bridewealth of her stomach. |
| obverse 8' | He enters the house of the kurunnu. |
| obverse 10' | You set up for Zeru. You set up 5 libations. |
| obverse 12' | You set up a libation vessel. You set up a censer of juniper. You libate first-rate beer. |
| obverse 14' | You give him a third time, and he is placed in front of the ritual assemblage. |
| reverse 12 | ... they shall cut off the... of the gate, and they shall release the gate. |
| reverse 2 | May your heart rejoice. |
| reverse 13 | ... omens |
| reverse 6 | May my praises be praised! |
| reverse 7 | and my witnesses forever |
| obverse 9' | As soon as he has done it, on the 4th day he will make two doors. |
| obverse 2' | ... threshing floor... |
| reverse 4 | (As for) the evil of an eclipse, |
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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