BMS 32 (P394962)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 32 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394962 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | It is [the wording of a] lifted-[hand prayer] to Ishtar. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [Its ritual: In front of Ishtar] you set up a [cen]ser of juniper (and) libate first-rate beer. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | You recite [this incantation] three times (and) his guilt will be released. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [His (personal) god and] his (personal) [g]oddess will be at peace with him. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [. . .] Ishtar, valiant one among the goddess[es], |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | Your position [. . .] in the midst of the pure heaven[s]. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [Y]ou (are) like Shamash [. . .], |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [. . .] the headwaters, the mountains, and the sea[s]. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | You oversee [the living cre]atures, the animals of the earth [. . .], |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | You guide aright [the bands] of the scattered people [. . .]. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | The populat[ion], all of them, [bow] down before you, |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | The animals of [the steppe(?)] are turned toward you (in expectation). |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | [Yo]u, O Ishtar, are powerful [among the great gods], |
| Obverse [14:15] o 15'15'–o 15'15' | [I ca]ll out to you, O lady, in the midst of the [pure] heaven[s]. |
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' | [...]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 2' | [KA.INIM.MA ŠU].⸢IL₂⸣.LA₂ {d}INANA.KAM | |
| 3' | [DU₃.DU₃.BI ana IGI {d}INANA NIG₂].⸢NA⸣ ŠIM.LI GAR{an} KAŠ.SAG BAL{qi₂} | |
| 4' | [EN₂ an-ni-tam] 3(diš)-šu₂ ŠID{nu} i-il-ta-šu₂ DU₈{[ar₂]} | |
| 5' | [DINGIR-šu₂ u {d}iš₈]-⸢tar₂⸣-šu₂ KI-šu₂ SILIM{⸢mu⸣} | |
| 6' | [šu-pu-u₂]-⸢tu₂⸣ {d}iš₈-tar₂ qa₂-rit-ti i-la₂-a-[ti] | |
| 7' | [x x (x)] man-za-az-ki ina qe₂-reb AN{e} KU₃-[MEŠ] | |
| 8' | [at]-ti-ma ki-ma {d}UTU [...] | |
| 9' | [x (x)] ⸢x⸣ IDIM-MEŠ KUR-MEŠ u A.AB.⸢BA⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 10' | [šik-nat na]-piš-ti na-maš-ti qaq-qa-ri ta-bar-ri-i ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 11' | [il-lat] ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ sa-pi-ih-ti tuš-te-še-ri [x x] | |
| 12' | [kam]-sa(NI-)ki-ma kul-lat-si-na ba-⸢hu⸣-[la-tu] | |
| 13' | [sah]-ru-ki na-maš-šu-u₂ ⸢ša⸣ [EDIN] | |
| 14' | [at]-ti-ma {d}iš₈-tar₂ le-ʾ-at [DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ] | |
| 15' | [al]-⸢si⸣-ki-ma GAŠAN ina qe₂-reb AN{[e} KU₃-MEŠ] | |
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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