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OECT 06, pl. 09, K 05271 (P384946)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 06, pl. 09, K 05271 |
|---|---|
| ID | P384946 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 1 | May you be my god who waters the harvest. |
| reverse 14 | ............ |
| reverse 5 | May my (personal) god not take away the evil reed |
| reverse 3 | he shall bring the labor of the storms to the south. |
| reverse 11 | Just as the nose is swollen, so may my nose be swollen like a swollen wind. |
| reverse 7 | When I eat food, when I eat food, when I eat food |
| reverse 2 | May the gods, in the water of darkness, be at peace with me! |
| reverse 10 | You stand in a reed fence like a reed fence. |
| reverse 8 | As for me, when I was in a tavern, |
| reverse 9 | When I poured water on my thigh, when I poured water |
| reverse 12 | Like a well, you make the barley grow and you raise your neck there. |
| reverse 6 | The gods are not guilty of evil. |
| reverse 13 | ... like a snare in a snare, your head is covered. |
| reverse 4 | The day you do not return to me. |
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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