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BWL pl. 61 K 04207 (P395444)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BWL pl. 61 K 04207 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395444 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| 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' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | ⸢NIŊ₂ x⸣ [...] | “(If) a house ..., |
| 4' | ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 8' | nam ⸢x⸣ [...] | The fate of |
| 9' | GA [...] | ... milk |
| 10' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| r i' | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | AN [...] | ..., |
| 3' | gub-ba-[...] | Stand by me! |
| 4' | DU ŊA₂ ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... e’e23 |
| 5' | AB ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... the eša temple |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x x⸣ ga-an-⸢x⸣ [...] | ... I want to ... |
| 2' | ⸢ni₂⸣-e tuku u₃-ni-hul₂-⸢le⸣ [...] | The one who has a temple, may he rejoice over him |
| 3' | ur {ŋeš}mar-gid₂-da [...] | Dog with a wagon |
| 4' | ab-ta-⸢ri-x⸣-a-gin₇ [...] | Like an eagle ... |
| 5' | KA tur-⸢ra x⸣-da [...] | ... with the young man |
| 6' | im-di-še₃ al-⸢x⸣ [...] | (Sum) It is a flood that is to be swept away(?) (Akk) Its flood was torn out |
| 7' | ⸢TUN₃⸣-e tak₄-a-ta SAŊ-⸢ab⸣ [...] | After you have poured out the etunû-plant, |
| 8' | [...] | |
| 9' | ⸢TUN₃⸣-e tak₄-a-ta niŋ₂-⸢x⸣ [...] | After you have opened the tavern |
| 10' | ⸢id₂⸣-da ni₂ TE E ⸢x⸣ [...] | (If) he approaches the river: ... . |
| 11' | ka-zu-še₃ ŋar-ra-⸢ab⸣ [...] | ... to your mouth ... |
| 12' | [...] | |
| 13' | igi a-ra-duh [...] | Before Araduḫ |
| 14' | me-še₃ mu-da-du-a [...] | The waters that he had cultivated |
| 15' | gur nu-me-a-ta ina ⸢la⸣ [...] | Since it was not a gur, in the temple |
| 16' | har-ra-an-gur nu-me-a-ta ina ⸢la⸣ ka-⸢x⸣-[...] | Since there was no road, in the ... of the quay |
| 17' | ŋen-na na-an-du-un a-lik e ta-⸢al-x⸣-[...] | The lord should not go, the leader should not ... |
| 18' | diŋir nin-zu-še₃ ana DINGIR be-li₂-⸢ka⸣ | May Ibir, your lady, pray to the god, your lord. |
| 19' | lu₂ ša₃-ŋar an-tuku-a be₂-ru-u₂-um | The one who has a dream interpreter, the envoy |
| 20' | e₂ šeg₁₂ al-ur₅-ra in-buru₃-de₃ E₂ a-gur-ri i-pal-la-aš | (If) he pours out a baked brick house, he will devastate the house with baked bricks |
| 21' | šu lu₂ ab-sag₃-ge-da-še₃ ana qa₂-at na-si-ki-⸢im⸣ | Hand of a man who is to be struck |
| 22' | lag ab-ta-la₂-e-en ki-ir-ba-na ⸢tu-x⸣-[...] | (Sum) I am the one who holds back the scepter(?) (Akk) The one who keeps hold of the reed mat in his place |
| 23' | a SUM₄-ma-ke₄ | “Oh, the one who gave me water, |
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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