K 03433 (P395009)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 03433 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395009 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
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| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [. . . the sty]lus (lit. [reed of the tab]let), who imparts knowle[dge], |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [. . .]s, who watches over the years, |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [. . . li]fe, who responds in kind, |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [. . .] of the gods, honored name, |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | The father, his progenitor, does not change his [command], |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [Mar]duk, does not change the command of Nabu, his son. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [. . .] his [w]ord is august. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [. . .] his neck. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | May [. . .] have mercy on him, like a father and a mother [. . .] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | He wrote and collated (this tablet) for an aide-to-memory for reading and deposited (it) in his palace. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [The one who] erases (his) inscribed name [. . .] |
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' | [... GI ṭup]-⸢pi⸣ BAD{⸢u₂} ha-si⸣-[si] | |
| 2' | [...]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ba-ru-u₂ MU-MEŠ | |
| 3' | [... na-piš]-⸢ti⸣ mu-ter-ru gi-mil-li | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ šu-mu kab-tu₄ | |
| 5' | [zi-kir]-⸢šu⸣ ul e-ni a-bu ba-nu-šu₂ | |
| 6' | {[d}TU]-⸢TU⸣ ul e-ni ⸢zi⸣-kir {d}AG DUMU-šu₂ | |
| 7' | [... a]-⸢mat⸣-su ṣi-rat | |
| 8' | [...]-ra GU₂{su} | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢ARHUŠ⸣ TUK-MEŠ-šu₂-ma GIM AD u ⸢AMA⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢a-na⸣ tah-sis-ti ⸢ši⸣-tas-si-šu ŠAR-ma IGI.BAR ŠA₃ ⸢E₂.GAL-šu₂ DU⸣{[in]} | |
| 3' | [ša] ⸢MU⸣ šaṭ-⸢ru i⸣-pa-šiṭ-⸢ṭu⸣ [...] | |
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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