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OECT 06, pl. 20, K 04962 (P384967)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 06, pl. 20, K 04962 |
|---|---|
| ID | P384967 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian; 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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1 | [me-na-še₃ gašan-ŋu₁₀ me-na]-⸢še₃⸣ muš₂-a-ŋu₁₀ dug₄-ga-⸢ab⸣ | How long, how long? Be satisfied! |
| [a-di ma-ti₃ ... a-di] ⸢ma⸣-ti₃ a-hu-lap-ia qi₂-bi-i | As far as the land , as far as (the city) Ēma-eti, my brother, speak! | |
| 2 | [... zalag₂-ga]-⸢zu⸣ i-bi₂ zid bar-mu-un-ši-ib₂ | Look faithfully at your shining ... |
| [...] ⸢nam⸣-ru-ti ki-niš nap-lis-in-ni-ma | ... the enamrû-priestess, look upon me with due favor | |
| 3 | [... us₂]-⸢sa⸣-ŋu₁₀ tum₉-a de₃-bi₂-ib₂-tum₃ | ... may he bring ... to an end |
| [... te]-⸢mi⸣-di-⸢in⸣-ni ša₂-a-ru lit-bal | ... may he take away his curse | |
| 4 | [... x]-⸢ma⸣-al tug₂-gin₇ si-ig-ga-na-ab | ... set it up like a garment for him |
| [...]-⸢šak⸣-na ki-ma ṣu-ba-ti liš-ša₂-⸢hi⸣-[iṭ] | ... may he ... like a lion | |
| 5 | [dim₃-me-er-ŋu₁₀ mu]-⸢lu⸣ siškur₂-ra-ke₄ siškur₂ de₃-ra-⸢ab⸣-[be₂] | May Immer-bum, the lord of the siskur prayer, pray to you |
| 6 | [amalu-ŋu₁₀ mu-lu a]-⸢ra⸣-zu-ke₄ a-ra-zu <(de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | The maltsman, the one of arazu prayer, may he pray to you |
| 7 | [... a-a] ⸢ugu⸣-zu šag₄-zu he₂-en-huŋ-[ŋa₂] | ..., your father, may your heart be pacified |
| [...] a-li-di-ki ŠA₃-ki li-ni-⸢ih⸣ | ... I go with you, may your hand be pacified | |
| 8 | [šag₄-zu de₃-en]-⸢na⸣-huŋ-ŋa₂ de₃-ra-ab-⸢be₂⸣ | May he/she say to you "may your heart be pacified to him" |
| 9 | [bar-zu de₃-en-na]-⸢sed⸣-de₃ de₃-<(ra-ab-be₂)> | May he say to you "may your liver be soothed to him" |
| 10 | [šag₄-zu šag₄ ama tu-ud-da-gin₇] ⸢ki⸣-bi-še₃ ha-ma-gi₄-[gi₄] | May your heart, like the heart of a birth mother, be restored to its place for me |
| 11 | [ama tu-ud-da a-a tu-da-gin₇] ⸢ki-bi-še₃⸣ <(ha-ma-gi₄-gi₄)> | Like the birth mother, like the birth father, may it be restored to its place for me |
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- 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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