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Shamash Religious Texts pl. 17 K 04986 (P395823)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Kiutu; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shamash Religious Texts pl. 17 K 04986 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395823 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Kiutu; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 10' | Written and checked and checked in his palace. |
| reverse 6' | When the gate of the liar... of Babylon was written and checked |
| obverse 5 | When you are to bring out the holy Dukug in the place of divination |
| reverse 8' | he made his limbs wide. He who the wisdom of Ea made wide and |
| obverse 15 | as well as the goats of the niku-priests |
| obverse 6 | From the pure mound, where the destinies are determined, |
| obverse 11 | The Anuna gods will make decisions for you. |
| obverse 10 | The great gods stand at your verdict. |
| reverse 3' | May this king resound your praises! |
| obverse 1 | When you have reached the incantation 'Utu, the great mountain,' |
| obverse 14 | the people who love their sanctuaries |
| reverse 9' | The whole of the scribal art has become dilapidated. |
| obverse 13 | For the sake of the humanity, they have brought them to the border of their land for the sake of their life. |
| obverse 8 | When heaven and earth are darkened, from the base of heaven |
| reverse 5' | The incantation, as if it were watering the river, |
| obverse 2 | the god ama from the great mountain in your presence |
| obverse 4 | From the great mountain I have piled up the pots at your feet. |
| obverse 7 | From the threshing floor to the threshing floor, from the threshing floor to the threshing floor, |
| obverse 16 | the illness of the incantation that afflicts him |
| reverse 7' | The palace of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, which Nabû and Tashmetu gave to him and |
| reverse 1' | May your greatness be praised by the god of the king |
| obverse 12 | the Anunnaki, the one who stands at your feet |
| obverse 3 | from the Great Mountain of the Tigris to |
| reverse 2' | its king, I want to praise you |
| obverse 9 | the great gods will be satisfied. |
| reverse 4' | And as for me, the tutu priest, your supplication/prayer, your supplication/prayer, you recite to you(?) |
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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