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BBR pl. 14 K 05146 (P395909)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BBR pl. 14 K 05146 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395909 |
| 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 8 | ... splendor,... the radiance,... like a fire. |
| obverse 4 | ... Urda |
| obverse 29 | Its chest does not exist |
| obverse 48 | to the pure plain |
| obverse 38 | he received from him 7 nindabin-kuga bread |
| obverse 24 | ... he brought out..., he made his work good. |
| obverse 20 | ... with him, he became frightened,..., he became frightened, |
| obverse 33 | In order to set the foundations of its people, in order to give birth to abundance, |
| obverse 25 | he smote... and cut off the emmer. |
| reverse 7 | ..., may he make his mighty weapon, the zermandu-demon, bow down at his feet. |
| obverse 11 | ... they raised up. They raised their necks on the lower side. |
| obverse 3 | he brought out |
| reverse 19 | ... :... may he make the foundations firm like the foundations. |
| reverse 21 | for the well-being of Utu the foremost of the gods |
| obverse 18 | Where... they will be established. |
| obverse 22 | ... he became angry and he became frightened. |
| obverse 7 | They are burning like fire like fire |
| obverse 44 | The man who seized his wife, who seized him, |
| reverse 1 | to the threshing floor to the threshing floor to establish |
| reverse 8 | may its word be favorable. |
| reverse 18 | ... (means) : he constantly seeks out the netherworld |
| obverse 26 | ... they went and the Amorite stood by him |
| obverse 40 | ............... |
| obverse 31 | whose mouth is firmly founded |
| reverse 23 | Incantation: "Ni'i(?) and Nihli |
| reverse 3 | ... he smote him, he smote him in his body, and |
| reverse 5 | ... a curse (related to) his curse..., |
| reverse 11 | .................. |
| obverse 37 | to look at Asalluhi |
| obverse 46 | he ascended his throne above his lips and |
| reverse 4 | he entrusted to him his supplication/ritual utterance |
| obverse 19 | ... their supplications, their utterances, their utterances, |
| obverse 12 | ... of the land, he made the land dwell, he made the great mountain dwell, |
| obverse 43 | After Lu-ulu had taken the oath of his son, he returned it. |
| obverse 2 | ... he has gone out |
| obverse 21 | whose limbs are firmly founded, |
| obverse 42 | I am surrounded by a sand dunes, I am concerned. |
| obverse 27 | ... their corpses are set up. |
| obverse 9 | They were stricken with..., they were constantly stricken with him. |
| reverse 17 | ... may... be praised. |
| obverse 1 | when he came out |
| obverse 14 | young and old he smote them, the people he smote |
| obverse 15 | As if it were raining on heaven and earth, they sat down in a reedbed. |
| reverse 20 | by the hand of ama the chief minister of the gods |
| obverse 5 | he set up in the netherworld |
| reverse 22 | may he return. |
| obverse 36 | his name and the day he sees, but he does not let him live. |
| obverse 6 | ... he will complete the rites of the earth |
| obverse 47 | the namub of Eridu |
| reverse 9 | ... may his later brother become happy. |
| reverse 2 | that he should remove the bitter tears that he had made in his body |
| obverse 39 | the upper side, next to the road,... may he take. |
| obverse 23 | ... the lamentation priests, the foot soldiers |
| obverse 45 | he made its reed baskets tremble. |
| obverse 30 | ... a radiant... he made it shine like daylight. |
| obverse 28 | ... he has guarded his cult centers. |
| obverse 35 | Its storm, the adversity of the bed, |
| obverse 41 | he decorated it with eggs of carnelian |
| reverse 10 | May the... of Amaual be soothed with its pure hands. |
| obverse 32 | ... a requital of his mouth he filled. |
| obverse 13 | the young men of the young woman who are filled with radiance, |
| reverse 6 | As for the one who removes the azallulu-demon, the strong one, who makes the foundations of the earth firm |
| obverse 34 | to... he is placed to him and he has heaped up many. |
| obverse 16 | In heaven and underworld, like a flood...... |
| obverse 10 | ... he will make their teeth swollen. |
| obverse 17 | ...... |
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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