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K 04540 (P395625)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04540 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395625 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 4' | Wherever I am, I will seize your hand and go to your house. |
| 5' | I have guarded my place. Wherever this work is being performed, you have set up a reed bed. |
| 7' | O Tashmetu, great lady, the one who loves your beloved, |
| 1' | ... who guards my life, who does not have fear, |
| 9' | May I not be afraid of you, may my life be long! |
| 8' | In your presence, in the lands you will be able to work daily. |
| 3' | I established that work. That work of Nabû is a pleasure and kingship. |
| 2' | At the threshing floor of the temple of Nabû that is inside Nineveh, the great lord, my lord, |
| 10' | Nirgalzû (is) not a dog of umma lu. |
| 6' | Your face is full of sighing and awe-inspiring brilliance. |
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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