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HES 5, no. 3 K (P395822)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | HES 5, no. 3 K |
|---|---|
| ID | P395822 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 11' | they will say to him “Alas, the heart.” |
| 12' | May your utterances be heard! |
| 9' | The Anuna gods... |
| 4' | He strews the heavens, |
| 3' | He screamed joyfully at An |
| 1' | The bitter reed of the sea has screamed at him |
| 10' | The Anunnaki screamed |
| 14' | When you speak to Ahula, your heart is dark, he says to him: |
| 6' | the moon becomes eclipsed, and he makes the earth shine. |
| 5' | The woman... the heart,... the earth |
| 13' | They will say to you “Your liver and body are well.” |
| 2' | he constantly seeks out her limbs, he constantly seeks her |
| 8' | the gods will do |
| 7' | they are making the decisions. |
| 15' | to its ziggurrat |
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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