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BMS 40 (P394517)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 40 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394517 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 8' | You set... a table. |
| 5' | ... is surrounded by a yellow-green halo. From the torch...... |
| 15' | ... is long and he will prosper in that year. |
| 12' | You libate first-rate beer and mihhu-flour. |
| 14' | You recite 3... as follows: |
| 11' | You make a censer of juniper, cedar, and tamarisk. |
| 4' | ... of cedar to... |
| 6' | ... 1 jug of white wool... |
| 3' | Its ritual:... of clay with... |
| 1' | ... life |
| 13' | (If) he is a thief, he will take his hand, and he will recover. |
| 16' | ... his name for good fortune will be named. |
| 2' | Wording of a lifted-hand prayer to... |
| 10' | The breast, the fatty tissue, the KA.NE-flour, the silqa-flour |
| 7' | ... his way... 7 gates... |
| 9' | ...... he will make a libation of sheep. |
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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