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HES 2, p. 36 B, pl. 2 (P395042)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | HES 2, p. 36 B, pl. 2 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395042 |
| 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 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse 9 | When you speak to the true minister Muzebbasa |
| reverse 1 | I did not sleep in the midst of the night |
| reverse 11 | When you speak to the righteous princess, the lady of battle |
| obverse 2' | the sacred dais of Sumer by Ua |
| obverse 8' | She roared at the house, she roared at the house. |
| obverse 10' | he will fill the shrine Esagila. |
| reverse 13 | May you not abandon your city, may you not speak aloud to him. |
| reverse 10 | When you speak to Ura, the first-born son of Ura |
| obverse 7' | ... she strews... into a house. |
| reverse 15 | It is an erema of Amarutu |
| obverse 5' | The pure... which is placed in the land |
| reverse 3 | Towards the scepter of the heart and the heart, he does not sleep |
| obverse 6' | She roared(?), she roared, she roared, she roared, she roared |
| reverse 16 | Erema, city of the lamentation priest |
| reverse 2 | The endu-priestess, the lament, the lament, the lament, the lament |
| reverse 5 | The lord, the one who irrigates heaven |
| reverse 14 | So that you speak to me in Babylon, so that I can speak to you. |
| obverse 3' | Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, shall return the money tenfold to its owners. He shall contest in his lawsuit and not succeed. |
| reverse 6 | the hero Asalluhi of heaven |
| reverse 4 | May your heart rejoice, may your liver be calmed. |
| obverse 9' | princess of the city of the lady of Babylon |
| reverse 12 | May my great princess, my lady Nanaya, speak kindly |
| obverse 4' | to raise the silver dais of Sumer |
| obverse 11' | The balag drums are not there, the balag drums are not there. |
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
- 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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