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Meier Maqlu 04 K 03483 (P395044)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Meier Maqlu 04 K 03483 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395044 |
| 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 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | a-⸢kas₃⸣-[si-ku-nu-ši ...] | “At your feet |
| 2' | a-na {⸢d⸣}[gira₂ ...] ; ka-[ši-du ...] | To Egira |
| 3' | {d}gira₂ ⸢qa⸣-[mu-u₂ ...] | Gira, eqaemû priestess |
| 4' | ip-šu₂ bar-tu ⸢a⸣-[mat ...] | “If he slips through the thresholds, the ea-e-mat-disease |
| 5' | DI.BAL.A ZI.KU₅.⸢RU⸣.[DA-a ...] | (If) a lawsuit (or) litigation against ēriš-priests |
| 6' | ŠA₃.BAL.BAL-a ṣu-ud ⸢pa⸣-[ni ...] | “It is a flood that destroys the sanctuaries |
| 7' | te-pu-ša₂-ni tu-še-pi-⸢ša₂⸣-[ni ...] | You did it, you made it perfect for me |
| 8' | a-na ADDA ta-ḫi-[ra-in-ni ...] | To the threshing floor you have brought me |
| 9' | a-na gul-gul-la-ti tap-[qi₂-da-in-ni ...] | You have handed me over to the devastation. |
| 10' | ⸢a-na⸣ GIDIM kim-ti-ia tap-⸢qi₂⸣-[da-in-ni ...] | You have given me a ghost of my family, |
| 11' | [a]-⸢na⸣ GIDIM a-ḫi-i tap-⸢qi₂⸣-[da-in-ni ...] | When you speak to me about the ghost of Aḫi, ... |
| 12' | [...] ⸢GIDIM mur⸣-tap-pi-du ša₂ pa-⸢qi₂⸣-[da ...] | ... emānu-plant, mur̂-tappidu-plant that is entrusted to ... |
| 13' | [... na-du]-⸢ti⸣ tap-⸢qi₂-da⸣-[in-ni ...] | ... you have entrusted me with supplication |
| 14' | [...] u ⸢na⸣-[me-e ...] | ... and ena’emê |
| 1'' | [...] ⸢tap-ḫa⸣-[a ...] | ... etapḫa-plant |
| 2'' | [...] tuš-ni-il-la ⸢te⸣ | ... you have sat down |
| 3'' | [... bi]-⸢ʾi⸣ ša₂ BAD₃ tap-ḫa-a te | ... the ‘Bīt-ali’-bird, the one who approaches the wall |
| 4'' | [...] ti-tur-ri taq-bi-ra-ma ; ⸢um⸣-ma-nu u₂-kab-bi-su te | ... you said to me, and the eumānu-plant seized him. How |
| 5'' | [NU.MEŠ]-ia ina bu-re-e ša₂ {lu₂}AZLAG ; PU₂ tap-ta-a taq-bi-ra te | My peopl[e] in the reed-bed of the seal-bearer, you have poured a well. |
| 6'' | [NU.MEŠ]-ia ina ŠITA₃ ša₂ {lu₂}NU.GIŠ.KIRI₆ ; ⸢PU₂⸣ tap-ta-a taq-bi-ra te | My peopl[e] in the hand of the gardener, you have commanded me to go out. |
| 7'' | [NU.MEŠ]-⸢ia⸣ lu-u ša₂ {giš}ŠINIG ⸢lu⸣-u ⸢ša₂⸣ {giš}EREN | May my ancestors be of tamarisk, elû-wood, cedar, |
| 8'' | [...] ⸢lu-u ša₂ DUḪ⸣.LAL₃ lu-u ša₂ DUḪ.ŠE.GIŠ.I₃ | ... ēlû-plant, either of honey or of sesame oil |
| 9'' | [...] ⸢IM lu⸣-u ša₂ ⸢NIG₂.SILA₁₁.GA₂⸣ | ... ešāgu-plant, the plant of enigsalû-plant |
| 10'' | [... la-ni]-⸢ia₅⸣ [te]-⸢pu⸣-[ša₂-ma] | '... you have performed against me, and |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | [...] {⸢lu₂}TI⸣.[LA] | ... elûtu-disease |
| 2' | [... lu]-u ḫa-⸢bil⸣-[ti] | ... may it be a joy |
| 3' | [... lu]-u {lu₂}⸢saḫ⸣-[ḫi-ru] | or a saḫbīru-priest |
| 4' | [lu-u {lu₂}eš-še-bu-u] ⸢lu⸣-u {lu₂}nar-⸢šin⸣-[du-u] | or an ecstatic, a elû-priest, or a singer |
| 5' | [...] lu-u {lu₂}a-gu-⸢gi⸣-[lu] | ... or the agû-priest |
| 6' | [... KUR₂]-tum ša ina KUR ba-ša₂-a-⸢tum⸣ | ... the enemy who in the land of Baša-etum |
| 7' | mu-ši-⸢tum⸣ kal-la-tum kut-tum₃-⸢tum⸣ | “It is enough, it is enough! It is sufficient! I want to bring it to you.’ |
| 8' | {giš}TUKUL-šu₂-nu liš-bir-[ma] ; ⸢la⸣ ṣa-⸢la-lu li-mid⸣-[su-nu-ti ...] | May their weapons be split off and may elā-e and ša-elu strike them. |
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