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CT 51, 194 (P286055)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 51, 194 |
|---|---|
| ID | P286055 |
| Museum no. | BM 122645 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [x-x] x-x [...] | |
| 2' | x [(x)] {lu₂}⸢UŠ₁₁⸣.[ZU-MU u {munus}UŠ₁₁.ZU-MU ...] | “(If) a man and a woman |
| 3' | ⸢NU⸣ {lu₂}UŠ₁₁.⸢ZU⸣ [u {munus}UŠ₁₁.ZU-MU ...] | The ēšû-priest, the enchanter, and my incantation priest |
| 4' | bi-il-šu-⸢nu⸣-[ti ...] | “Bīlšu’e-nu-e-ti |
| 5' | a-a GUR-ni ⸢a⸣-[a ...] | May he not turn back! |
| 6' | zi an-na ḫe₂-⸢pad₃⸣ [zi ki-a ḫe₂-pad₃] | May it be firmly established in heaven, may it be established in earth |
| 7' | ni-iš AN-e lu ta-[ma-ta nīš erṣeti lū tamâta] | May you be the light of heaven, may you be a light of the earth |
| 8' | NU.MEŠ šu-nu-ti ⸢ki⸣ [...] | These nugig priestess(s) of E-ki-e-23 |
| 9' | ana gu-gul-<li> te-si-⸢ip⸣ [...] | You recite to the gugul-drum ... |
| 10' | i-na {na₄}KIŠIB {⸢na₄⸣}ŠUBA [u šadâni] | with the seal of the šubû-stone and the seal |
| 11' | KA₂-ša₂ ta-bar-ram [...] | You open its gate |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-šar A.MEŠ ⸢ŠU⸣{[ii} ...] | As for the water of the ešû-vessel |
| 2 | KA ZALAG₂ ina NIG₂.SILA₁₁.⸢GA₂⸣ [...] | (If) it is bright: in the ritual assemblage . |
| 3 | u KA₂ ZALAG₂ ina ZI₃.⸢DA⸣ [... tepeḫḫī-ma] | and the opening of the gate you sweep with flour . |
| 4 | ZALAG₂ ana ID₂ ŠUB-⸢di ana nap-ša₂⸣-[...] | (If) it clears, you go down to the river, to the napša-edi-vessel |
| 5 | u₂-dap₂-par₂ ⸢šam⸣-me ana x [...] | The ēšammû-plants ... to ... |
| 6 | DIŠ NA pa-nu-⸢šu₂ ina ṣu⸣-[...] | If a man's left eye in ... |
| 7 | DUB 22.KAM₂⸣ [UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.RU.DA ...] | 22nd tablet of Ušburruda. |
| 8 | a-na-[ku {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A LUGAL ...] | I, Ashurbanipal, king of |
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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