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BA 05, 388 (P394366)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BA 05, 388 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394366 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns |
| 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 8' | ... : king |
| reverse 15' | I wrote on my tablet the wisdom of Nabû, as many as there are. I deposited (it) and placed (it) in my royal eye and established (it) in my palace. |
| obverse 14 | ... of the lands, |
| obverse 8 | the wide heavens, my heart’s allure |
| reverse 10' | ... no reeds/reeds... |
| obverse 13 | of the lands |
| reverse 7' | ... : he who is full of the cosmic powers |
| obverse 15 | ... in my body |
| reverse 9' | their... they smote |
| reverse 5' | of the gods |
| obverse 12 | my head : |
| reverse 16' | The king of the gods, Ashur, who erases my inscribed name and writes his name, |
| obverse 2 | By Enki, the... of the great ugalanzu priestess, the one who perfects the rites |
| reverse 17' | may (the god) Aur and the goddess Ninlil overthrow him fiercely and may his(?) hand (and) his seed disappear from the land. |
| obverse 4 | Ea, the one who reveres the people,..., the one who engendered all the people, |
| obverse 5 | king of the Anunna gods lord of the lands |
| reverse 3' | ... set up(?) |
| obverse 7 | You are the one who recites the incantation of Igigi. |
| reverse 14' | The first-fruits offerings of the scribal art, which no one among the kings who came before me had ever heard, were not present. |
| obverse 11 | my hand |
| obverse 9 | ... the broad stele(?) |
| reverse 2' | he established |
| obverse 3 | I, Enlil... all of the earth, Marduk |
| obverse 6 | The great reeds, his womb(?) and the womb(?) of the Nungales |
| obverse 1 | and I, Enlil, the... of Marduk |
| reverse 4' | ...... |
| reverse 6' | ...... |
| reverse 13' | The palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria, which (the god) Aur and the goddess Ninlil had granted to him, |
| obverse 10 | ... in my face |
| reverse 11' | After them, evil will not be established(?) : he will not go back to their rear(?). |
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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