Ebeling Handerhebung 166 (P394982)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ebeling Handerhebung 166 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394982 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
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| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | Incantation: [. . .] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | The one who makes [. . .] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | Net of the A[nunnaki . . .] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | The one who soothes the . . . (personal) god [. . .] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | Let me send you to [my] (personal) god [. . .] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | Who[se] hea[rts] are enraged, furious, [. . .] ang[ry . . .] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | Soothe (my) angry (personal) god, [. . .] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | May my faults be released, my transgressions [. . .] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | May my mistakes be forgotten, my debts be forgiven [. . .] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | May the forgiving of my debts be spoken . . . your name(?) [. . .] |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | May I pro[claim] the greatness of your divinity constantly. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 12'12'–r 12'12' | The wording of a lifted-hand prayer to Nisaba. [. . .] of the heart of a god. |
| Reverse [12:13] r 13'13'–r 13'13' | In front of maṣḫatu-flour [. . .] |
| Reverse [13:14] r 14'14'–r 14'14' | Incantation: Powerful, brilliant, pre-emin[ent one . . .] |
| Reverse [14:15] r 15'15'–r 15'15' | Third tablet of Bit Rimki. Palace of Ashurbanipal [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢EN₂⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | DU₃{at} ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | sa-par {d}⸢a⸣-[nun-na-ki ...] | |
| 4' | mu-sal-li-mat ⸢DINGIR⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | lu-uš-pur-ki ana ⸢DINGIR⸣-[ia ...] | |
| 6' | ša₂ kam-lu šab-su ⸢lib₃⸣-[ba-šu₂-nu ...] ⸢ze⸣-[nu-u ...] | |
| 7' | su-ul-li-mi-im-⸢ma⸣ DINGIR ze-nu-u {⸢d⸣}[...] | |
| 8' | an-nu-u₂-a lip-pa-aš₂-ru gil₂-la-tu-u-⸢a⸣ [...] | |
| 9' | hi-ṭa-tu-u-a lim-ma-ša₂-a ʾ-il-ti DUH{ir} [...] | |
| 10' | pa-ṭar ʾ-il-ti-ia₅ liq-qa-bi ⸢NAR BI⸣ DU₁₀ MU-⸢ka⸣ [...] | |
| 11' | ⸢nar-bi⸣ DINGIR{ti}ki ka-a-a-an lu-[ša₂-pi] | |
| 12' | KA-INIM-MA ŠU-IL₂-LA₂ {d}NISABA DINGIR ŠA₃ [...] | |
| 13' | ana IGI ZI₃.MAD.GA₂ [...] | |
| 14' | EN₂ ga-aš₂-ru šu-pu-u₂ e-⸢tel⸣-[lu ...] | |
| 15' | DUB.3(diš).KAM₂.ME E₂ rim-ki E₂.GAL {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A [...] | |
| 16' | ⸢x x x x x⸣ [...] | |
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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