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BWL pl. 30 K 01453 (P393896)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BWL pl. 30 K 01453 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393896 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 11 | You speak to a god and a supplication. |
| reverse 3 | May your name be bright, your face bright, may it be bright. |
| obverse 9 | As many people as there were, they did not have a rival forever. |
| reverse 2 | Be present in this ram,... your heart... |
| obverse 7 | ...... Gilgame speaks |
| obverse 12 | [May] your wrath [be pleasing] to a god, |
| obverse 17 | O father, he has not sinned against your heart, a sinful curse |
| reverse 6 | ...... (gloss: break) |
| obverse 8 | ... he did not go out. In the future |
| obverse 10 | the people and the work that they created, together with each other, |
| reverse 5 | ... your |
| obverse 2 | ...... you see your... |
| reverse 7 | The king, my lord, should know this |
| obverse 19 | ............ |
| obverse 4 | ...... I did... and |
| reverse 4 | ... your |
| obverse 14 | for a liar, a scepter, a scepter, |
| obverse 13 | To Itar of your city may he be sated and given to you. |
| obverse 6 | ...... has returned to the report |
| obverse 15 | For the sake of and the well-being of the people, it was very much |
| obverse 5 | ...... he will recover. |
| reverse 1 | or the black-headed ones, the one who determines the fates, |
| obverse 1 | You sing, "......, and he will recover" — |
| obverse 16 | You are able to smite, and you are able to smite, |
| obverse 18 | The squû-offering and the kû-offering that he imposed upon you, |
| obverse 3 | ...... they did... and |
| reverse 8 | ... his... |
| reverse 9 | ...... |
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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