BMS 27 (P394381)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 27 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394381 |
| 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 |
English translation
By King, Leonard W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Incantation: O powerful lord, exalted [. . .] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | Foremost of the Anunnaki, [. . .] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | Offspring of Kutushar, [. . .] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | O Nergal, omnipotent one of the gods, [. . .] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | You are manifested in the pure heaven[s, . . .] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | You are great in Arallû (i.e., the netherworld), [. . .] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | With Ea, in the assembly of the god[s . . .] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | With Sin, [. . .] in the heavens, |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | Enlil, your father, gave you [. . .] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | The livestock of Shakkan, the anim[als, . . .] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so [. . .] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | The anger of (my personal) god and (personal) goddess [. . .] |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | expenses and losse[s . . .] |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | Giving orders (and) not being obeyed [. . .] |
| Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515 | Because you are (so) very merciful, O my lord, [. . .] |
| Obverse [15:16] o 1616–o 1616 | Because you are relenting, [. . .] |
| Obverse [16:17] o 1717–o 1717 | Because you are favorably inclined, [. . .] |
| Obverse [17:18] o 1818–o 1818 | Because you are merciful, [. . .] |
| Obverse [18:19] o 1919–o 1919 | Truly look at me; and [. . .] |
| Obverse [19:20] o 2020–o 2020 | [. . .] your angry heart [. . .] |
| Obverse [20:21] o 2121–o 2121 | Release my sin, [my] misdee[d, . . .] |
| Obverse [21:22] o 2222–o 2222 | [. . .] the indignation (lit. knot of the heart) of your [. . .] divinity [. . .] |
| Obverse [22:23] o 2323–o 2323 | [. . .] (my) angry, furi[ous] [. . .] (personal) god and (personal) goddess [. . .] |
| Obverse [23:24] o 2424–o 2424 | So that I may speak of your great deeds [. . .] |
| Obverse [24:25] o 2525–o 2525 | [It is the wording of] a lif[ted]-hand prayer [to Nergal]. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | EN₂ be-lu₄ ⸢gaš⸣-ru ti-iz-⸢qa⸣-ru [...] | |
| 2 | a-ša₂-red {d}a-nun-na-⸢ki⸣ [...] | |
| 3 | i-lit-ti {d}ku-tu-šar₂ [...] | |
| 4 | {d}⸢U⸣.GUR kaš-kaš DINGIR-MEŠ [...] | |
| 5 | šu-pa-ta ina AN{e} KU₃-[MEŠ ...] | |
| 6 | ⸢ra⸣-ba-ta ina E₂.KUR.⸢UŠ₂⸣ [...] | |
| 7 | it-ti {d}e₂-a ina UKKIN ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ ...] | |
| 8 | it-⸢ti⸣ {d}3(u) ina AN{⸢e⸣} [...] | |
| 9 | id-⸢din⸣-ka-ma {d}5(u) AD-⸢ka⸣ [...] | |
| 10 | bu-ul {d}GIR₃ nam-maš-[še-e ...] | |
| 11 | ana-ku NENNI A NENNI [...] | |
| 12 | šib-sat DINGIR u {d}iš₈-tar₂ [...] | |
| 13 | ZI.GA u hu-lu-uq-⸢qu⸣-[u₂ ...] | |
| 14 | qa-bu-u la še-mu-⸢u₂⸣ [...] | |
| 15 | aš-⸢šum⸣ gam-ma-la-ta be-⸢li₂⸣ [...] | |
| 16 | aš-šum ta-a-a-ra-ta [...] | |
| 17 | aš-šum mu-up-pal-sa-⸢ta⸣ [...] | |
| 18 | aš-šum re-me₂-ne₂-ta [...] | |
| 19 | ki-niš IGI.BAR{an-ni}ma [...] | |
| 20 | ⸢ag⸣-gu lib₃-ba-ka [...] | |
| 21 | ⸢pu⸣-ṭur an-ni hi-⸢ṭi⸣-[ti ...] | |
| 22 | ⸢ki⸣-ṣir lib₃-bi DINGIR{ti}⸢ka⸣ [...] | |
| 23 | ⸢DINGIR⸣ u {d}1(u) 5(diš) ze-nu-ti šab-[su-tu₄ ...] | |
| 24 | ⸢nar₃⸣-bi-ka lu-uq-bi [...] | |
| 25 | [KA-INIM-MA] ŠU-⸢IL₂⸣-[LA₂ {d}U.GUR-KAM] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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