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CDLI Literary 002397, ex. 011 (P357112)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 002397, ex. 011 |
|---|---|
| ID | P357112 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | ||
| [...] MIN [...] | ... DITTO ... | |
| [...] [re]-⸢eš⸣ ṭup-šar-ru-⸢ti⸣ [...]-⸢x-ku iš-ten⸣ šu-u ri-gim-[...] | ... the first-born of the scribal art ... his hand | |
| [... šu]-⸢uš⸣ i-⸢kun ni⸣-bit-su ti-⸢de⸣-[e] | (Sum) ... his hand ... (Akk) The hand of a šu'û-demon ... its ni’ebits ... | |
| o | ||
| 3' | [...]-⸢dul⸣-bi [... ina] ⸢šu⸣-me-ri ma-la ta-⸢hu⸣-zu ka-tim-ta-šu₂ ki-a-am še-⸢ṭa⸣-[a ...] | (Sum) ... its ... (Akk) Its ... in its midst, as much as you have learned, its cultic rites (var.) As much as I have learned in Sumer |
| [...] an-⸢ta⸣ [...] INIM BAL-E-DA ⸢šu-ta⸣-bu-la e-liš ak-ka-[...] | ... from above ... a word is to be uttered from above | |
| [...] ki-⸢ta⸣ [...] šap-liš šu-me-⸢ru⸣ e-liš ak-⸢ka⸣-[...] | ... below ... above ... | |
| [...] e-liš šu-me-ru [...] | ... above the earth | |
| [...]-⸢x⸣ zu₂ keš₂-⸢da eme⸣-[ŋir₁₅ ...] pu-uh-ta e-ger-⸢ta ka⸣-ṣir-ta šu-me-⸢ru x⸣-[...] | (Sum) ... (Akk) The ... of the ..., the knot of the tongue, the emešbir ... from the edge of the steppe, from the šammê ... | |
| [...] ⸢si⸣ sa₂-e-de₃ ⸢nu-x⸣-[...] šu-lu-ša₂-a ša₂ ak-ka-du-[u ana] šu-te-šu-ru la na-ṭu-⸢u⸣ [...] | ... to bring down the esî-tree, the nu-x-e-[..., whose] hand (is) that of a akkaddu-priest, not to be able to rise | |
| [...] ⸢niŋ₂⸣ niŋin murub₄ ⸢x⸣ [...]-⸢la₂⸣ uh-hur-ta a-tar-ta ⸢ga-mer⸣-ta šu-us₂-hur-ta ⸢x-x⸣-[...] | (Sum) ... (Akk) The ... of the ēru-house, the nibin temple, the middle ... | |
| [...]-⸢x⸣ peš-a-bi ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x ma⸣-ra-a ha-an-ṭa ša₂ [...]-⸢x⸣ la i-šu-u šul-lu-šu₂ [...] | ... its opening ... ... the ... of the land, the one who ... does not have, his strength ... | |
| [...] ⸢e⸣-ne-ra uš aš eš [...] ⸢a⸣-na-ku at-⸢ta šu⸣-[...] ⸢x⸣-eš an-[niš ...] | (Sum) ... I am the one who is entrusted to him (Akk) .... I am indeed a envoy, I am a messenger ... | |
| [...] ⸢x⸣-eš GIŠ-x [...] [...] ⸢x x x⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x x⸣ | ... eš | |
| [...] ⸢x⸣-da i₃-⸢zu⸣-[u₃] | ... he will go up to the terrace | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢eme-te-na₂-a⸣ [...] | ... emetena ... |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢ka⸣ la [...] | ... not ... |
| 2' | [...] ⸢ana ba⸣-a-bi la ⸢tur⸣-[...] | ... that which had been plundered was not small(?) |
| 3' | [...]-⸢ti⸣ ti-šab-ma lu-u ⸢kan⸣-[...] | ... you enter, and may ... |
| 4' | [...]-⸢x⸣ ŠA₃-ka liš-ta-bil | ... may ... carry your hand |
| [...] ⸢da⸣-ma-qi ra-še-e la-mas-[...] | ... eda’emaqi raše lama ... | |
| [... hi]-ših-ti E₂.⸢GAL⸣ | ... the debt of the palace | |
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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