BMS 14 (P394675)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 14 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394675 |
| 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 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1' | [. . .] to me. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [. . . immedi]ately hear me! |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [. . .] my prayer. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [. . .] requite my life. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | May [. . .] learn [. . .] from me (lit. may he see . . . in my hands). |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [. . .] . my sin. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [. . .] be reconciled with me. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [. . .] Esagil. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [. . .] . your lordship. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | May [. . .] rejoice in your presence |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer] to Marduk. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [. . .]. You set up [. . .] in the presence of Marduk. |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | [. . .]. His prayer will be accepted. |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | [. . . spl]endid |
| Obverse [14:15] o 15'15'–o 15'15' | [. . .] heroic |
| Obverse [15:16] o 16'16'–o 16'16' | [. . .] terrifying one [among the Anunna]ki. |
| Obverse [16:17] o 17'17'–o 17'17' | [. . .] he has no [. . .] |
| Obverse [17:18] o 18'18'–o 18'18' | [. . .] his brothers [. . .]. |
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' | [... ana] ⸢UGU-MU⸣ | |
| 2' | [... qer]-⸢biš⸣ ši-man-ni | |
| 3' | [...] tes₂-li-ti | |
| 4' | [...] gi-mil ZI{⸢ti⸣} | |
| 5' | [...]-tu₄ ina ŠU-MU li-mur | |
| 6' | [...]-⸢x⸣ hi-ṭi-ti | |
| 7' | [...] si-lim KI-MU | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢x⸣ e₂-sag-il₂ | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢x⸣ EN{ut}ka | |
| 10' | [...] ⸢x⸣ pa-nu-uk-ka li-ir-⸢tiš₂⸣ | |
| 11' | [KA-INIM-MA ŠU-IL₂-LA₂ {d]}⸢AMAR⸣-UTU-KAM | |
| 12' | [... ana IGI {d]}⸢AMAR⸣.UTU GAR{an} | |
| 13' | [...] ⸢tes₂⸣-lit-su ŠE.GA{at} | |
| 14' | [... ši]-⸢tar⸣-hu | |
| 15' | [...] qar-du | |
| 16' | [... ša₂ {d}a-nun-na]-⸢ki ra⸣-šub-bu | |
| 17' | [...] ul ib-ši | |
| 18' | [...] ⸢ŠEŠ⸣-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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