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BBR pl. 17-19 K 02427+ (P394427)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BBR pl. 17-19 K 02427+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P394427 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 17 | reed bed, reed beds in the midst of the house |
| obverse 69 | he made good everything. |
| reverse 17 | I am a supplication/prayer |
| obverse 19 | at the upper end of Utu : at the lower end of the uluh offering of Enki |
| reverse 20 | may he be holy like heaven |
| obverse 10 | to heaven, to earth, to earth, to earth |
| obverse 16 | May the evildoer stand at his side |
| reverse 38 | by Gibil's tongue |
| reverse 24 | who came out from the mountain |
| obverse 59 | The Anuna gods wailed |
| obverse 29 | May the one who irrigates the sagga and water-courses irrigate. |
| reverse 37 | by the hand of Gil |
| reverse 43 | from the good quality of the Abzu the iib priestship |
| reverse 26 | KU (means) : he who sets the na (gauge) in order |
| reverse 13 | may it go before him, may it go before him. |
| reverse 60 | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| obverse 4 | Your lap is the foundation of the earth, it is the foundation of good fortune. |
| obverse 52 | The mouth of a man is sweet, he is sweet |
| obverse 31 | May the evil tongue be set aside. |
| reverse 10 | May they not return to his good condition. |
| obverse 32 | Incantation: Incantation: From the site of the quay |
| reverse 1 | the fathers of the gods, their pure fear |
| obverse 65 | May a man be shaved off, may he be shaved off. |
| reverse 65 | May Ashur and Ninlil overthrow him fiercely and make his name (and) his seed disappear from the land. |
| reverse 35 | nattu-disease |
| reverse 30 | he brought out |
| reverse 33 | Incantation: O Gibil, she-goat of the great mountain,... |
| obverse 68 | Its midst is pure, its midst is pure, its fear is pure. |
| reverse 7 | he decorated it for him. |
| reverse 62 | king of the gods, Aur |
| reverse 56 | Whoever among the kings who preceded me has not received that work, |
| obverse 35 | ... the great lord |
| obverse 25 | rejoicing joy of the wording of the good harbor |
| obverse 5 | supplication of the gods |
| obverse 37 | its mouth shall be praised. |
| reverse 39 | with Gibil's tongue |
| reverse 4 | whose face is adorned with rejoicing |
| reverse 42 | from the pure Euphrates River I established. |
| reverse 34 | his holy rites |
| obverse 40 | Incantation: O cedar grown from the Great Mountain |
| reverse 50 | may the evil tongue stand outside. |
| obverse 57 | to the place of battle, to the place of the holy battle |
| obverse 62 | to enter the place of the guarantor |
| obverse 18 | the star rises from heaven to earth. |
| reverse 14 | may he be in his head |
| obverse 7 | he entrusted it to all the people. |
| obverse 67 | The fate of Enki was determined by An and Enlil. |
| obverse 26 | decision |
| reverse 18 | is pure |
| obverse 64 | ... is a tudug offering, the great lord of Enki |
| reverse 63 | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name with my name, |
| reverse 40 | to the tongue of evil |
| reverse 32 | may he stand before him. |
| obverse 38 | he smote, he smote, |
| reverse 45 | He sacrificed cedar,... the aur tree |
| obverse 39 | May the evil tongue stand outside. |
| reverse 11 | ... of Lammasigga, the lordship and kingship of the nation |
| obverse 33 | ... of salt and malt |
| obverse 11 | Your face towards heaven has risen towards heaven |
| reverse 23 | Incantation: Burning of fire from the mountain, from the mountain |
| reverse 36 | the evildoer |
| obverse 55 | whose great... is made good |
| obverse 61 | he poured water into the karku-vessel. |
| obverse 49 | its foundations on the earth |
| reverse 19 | It is the uluha ritual in the enenna ritual. |
| reverse 52 | which to Aur and Ninlil the support of Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| obverse 28 | he smote the tongue. |
| obverse 21 | May the one who touches the forehead of a man whose mouth is full of water |
| obverse 48 | ..., whose horns are swollen |
| obverse 63 | reeds of sadug reed |
| reverse 61 | (a kind of profession) |
| reverse 47 | Enki, king of the Abzu, pure |
| obverse 51 | who goes from the mountain |
| reverse 22 | may he stand before him. |
| obverse 54 | Incantation: Incantation: From the Sea of the Rising Sea to the Rising Sea of the Rising Sea |
| obverse 6 | the top of the head, the top of the water, |
| obverse 47 | Incantation: O new aromatic plant grown in my intestines |
| obverse 2 | your face towards heaven, the foundation of the earth |
| obverse 27 | he heaped up its tongue. |
| obverse 15 | He made the kalulu flourish, he made the king rejoice. |
| reverse 44 | he decorated Eridu with sweet fragrance. |
| obverse 53 | May the evil tongue be set aside. |
| reverse 27 | with a furious aura |
| obverse 14 | the top of the head: |
| reverse 16 | I am the pure ulua priest |
| reverse 49 | he has made it shine for him. |
| obverse 42 | ... above and below |
| obverse 66 | Incantation: O mother of the gods, that which gives birth to everything |
| reverse 53 | (a kind of insect) |
| reverse 55 | (a kind of insect) |
| reverse 57 | (a kind of insect) |
| reverse 59 | (a kind of insect) |
| reverse 64 | (a kind of insect) |
| obverse 60 | Enki gave the stele to Enki |
| reverse 8 | ... the evil ghost, the evil god, the evil bailiff |
| obverse 30 | He smote the mouth of a man, he smote him |
| reverse 25 | a place of relaxation, a place of relaxation |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: O iu-wood, juniper, and anedina tree |
| reverse 2 | pure and pure |
| obverse 13 | May your... be heaped up. |
| reverse 58 | I wrote the word of Nabû, (and) deposited my clay cone, as many as there were, in tablets. |
| obverse 56 | whose fearsomeness is unrivaled |
| obverse 23 | May the evil tongue stand outside. |
| reverse 48 | he killed Lu-ulu, son of his god, |
| reverse 51 | The 9th day, as its full price, the palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 24 | Incantation: O alkali-plant, pure potash |
| obverse 46 | may he stand before him. |
| obverse 8 | I made it stand opposite the evil tongue. |
| reverse 41 | Incantation: O lord, who establishes abundance from the Great Mountain |
| reverse 5 | he established it in the sea. |
| obverse 20 | ... reed basket |
| obverse 45 | ... he purified. |
| reverse 21 | may he make it shine like heaven. |
| reverse 54 | When the awe-inspiring brilliance of scribal art |
| obverse 22 | He smote the mouth of a man and smote him. |
| reverse 6 | his god, when he dwells in the house |
| obverse 50 | the temple of Enlil, its ziggurrat |
| obverse 43 | water that is surpassing in the heart |
| obverse 36 | ... of the horizon |
| reverse 15 | Incantation: I am the suluh priest |
| reverse 12 | may they stand in his supplication |
| reverse 31 | May he make it shine like the heavens. |
| obverse 41 | who determines the fates |
| reverse 46 | He sacrificed the heavens in heaven and the earth |
| obverse 3 | your face towards heaven |
| obverse 44 | water that flows from the mountain |
| obverse 9 | Incantation: Innuuu-plant, green from the Abzu grown |
| reverse 9 | his evil tongue, the evil tongue, the evil tongue, |
| obverse 58 | the one who perfects Enki |
| reverse 28 | ... of the table |
| reverse 29 | the one who... everything of pureness |
| obverse 34 | from the threshing floor |
| obverse 12 | to the ground he brought it into the ground. |
| reverse 3 | Asalluhi gave orders to him |
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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
- 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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