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K 04891 + K 05348a + K 20238 (P395772)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04891 + K 05348a + K 20238 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395772 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| [...]-šu₂ [...] | ... his | |
| 2' | [šag₄-ŋu₁₀] ⸢i-lu⸣-bi ⸢nu⸣-<(...)> | Its elû-tree |
| ⸢lib₃⸣-bi nu-be₂-e-šu₂ [...] | Its interior did not have ... | |
| 3' | ur₅-ŋu₁₀ a-še-er-bi nu-<(...)> | Its reed screen does not ... |
| 3'a | ka-bat-ta ta-ne₂-eh-ša₂ [...] | (Sum) The one who sleeps in a womb (Akk) She sleeps on a sleepless sleep |
| 4' | ⸢šag₄⸣-ŋu₁₀ a-še-er-bi nu-<(...)> | The šaĝ-priestess does not ... its opening |
| lib₃-bi bi-kit-su [...] | (Sum) The heart of the one who is torn out(?) (Akk) Its heart is shattered | |
| 5' | ⸢ur₅⸣-ŋu₁₀ gig-ga-bi nu-<(...)> | Its bitter urû-festival |
| ⸢ka⸣-bat-ti₃ ma-ru-uš-⸢ti₃⸣-ša₂ [...] | In the “House of the Abattu,' Aruš-eša | |
| 6' | ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢ur₅⸣-ŋu₁₀ hul til-⸢la⸣-ŋu₁₀ nu-<(...)> | (Sum) The ešumu-temple, the ... temple, the evil urba e<bu₃> temple, does not end (Akk) ... the enlil temple, it does not finish(?) |
| ⸢x x⸣ ka-bat-ti ul ⸢ib⸣-šu₂-u [...] | (Sum) The ... of the temple is not his temple(?) (Akk) Its temple(s) are not its temple | |
| 7' | me-e ⸢na-aŋ₂⸣-tar-⸢bi⸣-[še₃] u₃ nu-mu-un-ši-ku-[ku] | I am not able to sleep at night |
| ana-ku ana ši-⸢ma⸣-[ti-šu₂] ul a-ṣal-[lal] | I will not turn back to my fate. | |
| 8' | u₃ nu-mu-un-⸢ši⸣-[ku]-⸢ku⸣ u₃-sa₂ nu-mu-un-dab-[be₂-en] | She does not sleep, she does not restrain her sleep. |
| [...] šit-ta ul i-ṣab-ba-⸢tan⸣-[ni] | ... he will not raise a claim against me | |
| 9' | ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x-KU nu-mu-un⸣-[...] | ... did not ... ... |
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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