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JNES 33, 317 K 04617+ (P395659)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | JNES 33, 317 K 04617+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P395659 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 29' | a person who... |
| obverse 11' | my good thing not to be loosened |
| reverse 17 | Like a reed fence you stand in a reed fence, you have made it shine faithfully for me |
| obverse 24' | ... like the other... his (personal) god's.................. |
| obverse 1' | (a kind of profession) |
| reverse 13 | When I eat food, when I eat the reedbed |
| obverse 27' | he who listens to prayers |
| obverse 5' | aganla silver |
| obverse 17' | (If) he does not drink water (from it) |
| reverse 3 | he has brought to you my hand. |
| reverse 9 | May he bring the power of the storm to the south. |
| obverse 20' | Like the one who has sinned against me, the god has... like me. |
| obverse 6' | ... for my reading... |
| reverse 1 | my god will not stand by me. |
| obverse 30' | ... of rejoicing... |
| reverse 18 | Just as the nose is swollen, so may my nose be swollen like the nose. |
| obverse 22' | Just as the water has risen, in my own life I have... the gods. |
| reverse 16 | ......... in my hand, |
| obverse 31' | ... for you |
| obverse 15' | ... does not eat my fear |
| obverse 32' | ... he will hear... |
| obverse 7' | My ox does not tie up in the cattlepen |
| obverse 18' | ... I have not been able to take away the water for my life. |
| obverse 21' | As if (it was) a watering place, my fear was a flood, as if (it was) a flood |
| obverse 2' | to the... of... |
| obverse 13' | I did not let go of my belongings to the house |
| obverse 14' | I did not pay attention to the tribute that I received. |
| obverse 8' | I will not come back in the evening. |
| reverse 12 | May the god not give me an evil curse. |
| reverse 14 | I am well; I am well; you can be glad. |
| reverse 11 | May my (personal) god not take away the evil reeds from him |
| obverse 3' | the lord who smote you |
| reverse 5 | I am the one who brings water to my garden |
| obverse 9' | my sheepfold |
| obverse 25' | my wife, Ela, my son, Ela |
| reverse 7 | My god, you are the water of the harvest. |
| obverse 28' | ... you recite... |
| reverse 6 | You are indeed a reed mat in the water. |
| obverse 10' | ... in the middle of... |
| reverse 15 | When I poured water on my stomach, when I poured water on my stomach |
| reverse 2 | The gods have sinned against me. |
| reverse 4 | I have sat down in the hand, |
| obverse 16' | I have no rival. I have no rival. |
| obverse 4' | O lord,... of.. |
| obverse 19' | As if (it was) a plant that was chosen by the name, my fear was... like my god |
| reverse 10 | The day you do not return to me. |
| obverse 23' | the year in which his god had chosen allure, like my god |
| obverse 26' | You take the incantation 'You are to take care of....' |
| reverse 8 | May the gods be exalted in the water. |
| obverse 12' | they are good. And I shall come to him. |
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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