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Shurpu 9 L + N (P395782)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shurpu 9 L + N |
|---|---|
| ID | P395782 |
| 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 11' | new date palms in my body |
| obverse 5' | the land of the aurra (resin) above |
| obverse 25' | the prince Enki gave a stele |
| obverse 15' | the house of Enlil, its ziggurat |
| reverse 1' | good quality tin |
| reverse 4' | ...... |
| obverse 9' | let the evil tongue stand outside. |
| obverse 27' | to make the place of the ziggurat secure |
| reverse 3' | to usaga-dingira |
| obverse 14' | in Eridu the great canopy |
| obverse 4' | from the pure mountain of the fate |
| obverse 19' | Incantation: Incantation: From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea |
| obverse 2' | may he be present. |
| obverse 13' | The light of heaven and earth, its radiance, |
| obverse 12' | whose aromatic rites... the face of the star |
| obverse 21' | Its... did not know, its fear was awe-inspiring |
| obverse 23' | its uluh offering of Enkiga |
| obverse 3' | Incantation: O cedar grown from the mountain |
| obverse 26' | KA of abundance, KA of abundance |
| obverse 7' | In the evening, in the evening, in the evening, in the evening, in the evening, in the mountain. |
| obverse 16' | coming out from the mountain |
| obverse 24' | The Anuna gods took away from them. |
| obverse 22' | to the west, to the east, to the east, to the east, to the east, to the holy earth, |
| obverse 6' | Its treasury is excessive in the field |
| reverse 5' | ...... |
| obverse 8' | He smote all the people, he smote all the people. |
| reverse 2' | ... tu |
| obverse 20' | ... the utuda priestess, its wide intestines, rejoicing |
| obverse 18' | I made it stand as a gift for the evildoer. |
| obverse 17' | He smote all the people, he smote them. |
| obverse 1' | he smote..., he smote |
| obverse 10' | Incantation: O ili, yellow-green. |
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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