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Meier Maqlu 04 Sm 0745 (P396143)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Meier Maqlu 04 Sm 0745 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396143 |
| 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 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
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 i | ||
| 1 | [...] ⸢biš⸣-li qi₂-de-e ⸢qi₂⸣-[de-e] | ... ēšû-tree, “sacrifice', eqi’e' |
| 2 | [... ṣe]-⸢e⸣-nu e te-ru-ub at-[lak] | ... enter and go! |
| 3 | [...] ⸢DUMU⸣ man-nu at-ti-man-nu DUMU.MUNUS [...] | ... who is the daughter of ...? |
| 4 | [... ip]-⸢ši⸣-ku-nu up-ša₂-še-ku-nu te-te-ne₂-⸢ep-pu-ša₂⸣-a-ni ⸢ia⸣-[a-ši] | “... you have performed against me your deeds, |
| 5 | [... {d}e₂]-a MAŠ.MAŠ | Ea, exorcist |
| 6 | [... kiš-pi]-⸢ku⸣-nu {d}asal-lu₂-ḫi MAŠ.MAŠ DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ ; DUMU {d}e₂-a ⸢ABGAL⸣ | the witchcraft of Asalluḫi, exorcist of the gods, son of Ea, chief of the temples |
| 7 | [a-kam-mi-ku-nu]-⸢ši⸣ a-kas₃-si-⸢ku⸣-nu-ši ⸢a-nam⸣-[din-ku-nu-ši] | I shall make you enter, I shall place you in your presence. |
| 8 | [...] qa-li-i ka-si-i ka-ši-di [...] | “… the qalû-demon, the kasītu-disease (and) the kišidu-demon |
| 9 | [... qa]-⸢mu⸣-u₂ li-tal-lal i-[da-a-a] | ... may the qa’emû-demon go away from me. |
| 10 | [...] ⸢KI⸣.AG₂.GA₂ ḪUL.[GIG] | ... the E23.AG.GA temple was destroyed |
| 11 | [... KA.DAB].⸢BE₂.DA ŠUR₂⸣.ḪUN.⸢GA₂⸣ [...] ; [...] | “(If) he slips through the cracks of the ēšû-demon, he will be deprived of a life of long days, ... |
Sources & licences
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