K 04990 + K 05023 (P395825)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04990 + K 05023 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395825 |
| 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)
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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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | ⸢me⸣-e di-kud-[ta me-e di-kud-ta] | “I am the one who is in pain, I am in pain. |
| a-na-ku ana da-a-a-⸢ni⸣ [a]-⸢na-ku ana da⸣-[a-a-ni] | I for the god Aya-ēni, I for (the god) A’u-Ea | |
| 2 | me-e umun {d}di-kud-⸢mah-am₃⸣ me-e <di-kud-ta> | I, lord Dikudmaḫ, I, from the river |
| ana-ku ana be-li₂ {d}ma-⸢da⸣-num₂ ṣi-ri <a-na-ku ana da-a-a-ni> | I, for my lord, Madanum, the herdsman, I (am) for the judge | |
| 3 | me-e umun e₂-rab-de₅-⸢de₅⸣ me-e <di-kud-ta> | I, the lord of the Erabdede temple, I am the judge |
| ana-ku ana be-el E₂.{<ŠU(RAB.DE₅.DE₅-)>}ma <a-na-ku ana da-a-a-ni> | I am the lord of the house, I am his judge | |
| 4 | me-e di-kud tin-tir{ki} me-e <di-kud-ta> | I, the judge of Babylon, I, from the judge |
| ana-ku ana da-a-a-an ba-ab-i₃-li₂ <a-na-ku ana da-a-a-ni> | (Sum) I, for the judge Bābi-ili, I, (for) the judge | |
| 5 | [me]-⸢e⸣ di-kud e₂-⸢saŋ-il₂⸣ me-⸢e⸣ <di-kud-ta> | You are the judge of the Esaŋil temple, (you are) the judge |
| [ana-ku] ⸢ana da⸣-a-a-⸢an E₂⸣.{<MIN(SAG.IL₂)>} <(a-na-ku ana da-a-a-ni)> | I, for the god Aueaya’ean of the temple of ditto, (and) for the (god) Ayani | |
| 6 | [me-e di]-⸢kud e⸣-[ne]-⸢eŋ₃⸣ še-ga-⸢ke₄⸣ [me-e <di-kud-ta>] | I am the judge of the E'emene temple, the šega priest, I am a judge |
| [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | ||
| r | ||
| 1' | [LIBIR.RA-BI]-⸢GIM⸣ [LIBIR.RA-BI]-⸢GIM⸣ [SAR-ma ba-a-ri] | Written and collated according to its original. |
| 2' | ⸢KUR⸣ {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A šar₄ ⸢ŠU₂⸣ [šar₄ {kur}AN.ŠAR₂{ki]} | Ekur-ea, Ashurbanipal, king of the Apsû (and) king Of Assyria. |
Sources & licences
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- 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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