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BL 138 (P357091)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 138 |
|---|---|
| ID | P357091 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| 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' | ⸢šul dim₃-me⸣-[er ...] | The esvul priestess, the god |
| 2' | gi-izi-la₂ ⸢gur₃-ru kur su₃-ra₂⸣ uru [...] ki-tuš u₄ ul du₃-a-ta diŋir ša₃ dib-ba ⸢ša₃⸣-[ba ...] | The reed mat of the egurru-house, the distant mountain, the city ... From the dwelling built in distant days, the dibir-demon, the one who passes by, in its eša-e23-house |
| 3' | umun dim₃-me-er-ŋu₁₀ bara₂ ku₃-ga tuš-a-ra er₂-⸢ra⸣ [...] | For the lord, who sits on the holy dais, ... tears. |
| 4' | me-e dim₃-me-er-ŋu₁₀ ni₂-da ba-⸢an⸣-[...] | I, the god, was encircled by fear |
| 5' | me-e dim₃-me-er-ŋu₁₀ šir₃-re-eš ⸢ga⸣-[...] | I, the en priestess, the shepherd of the Ega temple |
| 6' | me-e dim₃-me-er-ŋu₁₀ a-ra-zu ⸢ga⸣-[...] | I, the god, the arazu prayer |
| 7' | me-e dim₃-me-er-ŋu₁₀ er₂-ra ⸢mu⸣-[...] | I, the god of weeping |
| 8' | me-e dim₃-me-er-ŋu₁₀ di-ku₅ ⸢ga⸣-[...] | I, the god, the judge of the temple |
| 9' | me-e diŋir-ŋu₁₀ mu-e-⸢ši⸣-[in-ŋen] tug₂-ŋu₁₀ ⸢ga⸣-[...] | I am the one who makes a rainbow rise, I will make a garment of it |
| 10' | ma-al-la-še₃ sahar-[...] | Because of what is there, dust |
| 11' | umun dim₃-me-er-ŋu₁₀ bara₂ ku₃-⸢ga⸣ [tuš-a-ra] ša₃-⸢ne⸣-[ša₄ ...] | For the lord of the gods, the one who sits on the holy dais, his heart ... |
| 12' | ⸢ša₃ dim₃-er-ŋu₁₀⸣ [...] | The ‘heart’ of the gods |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢gašan bara₂ ku₃-ga tuš-a-ra⸣ [...] | The Egašan, sitting on the holy dais |
| 2' | me-e gašan-ŋu₁₀-ra [...] | I, for the Ŋaštu-demon |
| 3' | min er₂-ša₃-hun-ŋa₂ [...] | Second Eršaḫunba |
| 4' | ur-saŋ še-er-ma-al-la x [...] | The hero, the šermala priest |
| 5' | umun ni₂-zu [...] | Lord, your fearsomeness |
| 6' | ša₃-ba-ni ga-an-⸢hun⸣-[...] | I want to pacify his heart |
| 7' | e-ne-⸢em₃⸣ x [...] | The word of ... |
| 8' | šu-ŋu₁₀ ⸢ga⸣-[an-na-ab-il₂ ...] | The one who raises his hands in the Eanna temple |
| 9' | ⸢alim⸣ [...] | “Ealim-e23 |
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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