BMS 56 (P394690)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 56 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394690 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| a [0:1] a 1'a 1'–a 1'a 1' | Who in [. . .] |
| a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2' | Uta'u[lu . . .] |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | power[ful] heir [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4' | The tru[e] ploughman [. . .] |
| a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5' | Who heaps up [. . .] |
| a [5:6] a 6'6'–a 6'6' | Who rescues [. . .] |
| a [6:7] a 7'7'–a 7'7' | I, Ashur[banipal . . .] |
| a [7:8] a 8'8'–a 8'8' | Whose (personal) god [. . .] |
| a [8:9] a 9'9'–a 9'9' | On account of the evil of a [lunar] eclipse [. . .] |
| a [9:10] a 10'10'–a 10'10' | (On account of) the evil of portent[s . . .] |
| a [10:11] a 11'11'–a 11'11' | [Which . . . in my pala]ce [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| a | ||
| 1' | ša₂ ⸢ina⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | {d}uta-⸢u₁₈⸣-[lu ...] | |
| 3' | IBILA ⸢gaš⸣-[ru ...] | |
| 4' | ik-ka-ru ⸢ke-e⸣-[nu ...] | |
| 5' | mu-gar-ri-in [...] | |
| 6' | e-ṭi-ir [...] | |
| 7' | a-na-ku {m}aš-⸢šur⸣-[DU₃-A ...] | |
| 8' | ša DINGIR-šu₂ [...] | |
| 9' | ⸢ina⸣ HUL AN.⸢GE₆⸣ {[d}3(u) ...] | |
| 10' | [ina] ⸢HUL⸣ A₂-[MEŠ ...] | |
| 11' | [ša ina E₂].⸢GAL⸣-[MU ...] | |
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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