BMS 52 (P396503)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 52 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396503 |
| 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 |
English translation
By King, Leonard W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | At your reliable affirmation [. . .] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | Its ritual: In front of Sipazi[anna . . .] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | With either a ritual assemblage or a censer you recite (the incantation) three times. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | Incantation: You, O Pleiades, (are) king of the mighty gods, who are manifest over all of the lands. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [. . .], king of the world, king of the land of Ashur, |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | who trusts [. . .] and Ninlil, |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [. . . Tashme]tu gave wide understanding, |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [. . .] enlightened [. . .] with regard to the highest level of the scribal art, |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [. . .] who came before [me . . .], |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | [whi]ch [art . . . had] not l[earned], |
| Reverse [11:12] r 12'12'–r 12'12' | [. . . cuneiform] signs, [. . .]. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [...]-na | |
| 3' | [... re-e]-ša₂-ka | |
| 4' | [...]-⸢x⸣ GAL{ta} | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢x⸣-in-ni | |
| 6' | ⸢x⸣ [... lu]-uk-šu-ud | |
| 7' | ina ⸢an-ni-ka ki-nim⸣ [...]-⸢ka⸣ EN | |
| 8' | KID₃.KID₃.BI ana IGI {mul}SIPA.⸢ZI.AN⸣.NA | |
| 9' | lu ina KEŠDA lu ina NIG₂.NA 3(diš)-šu₂ ŠID{nu⸣} | |
| 10' | EN₂ LUGAL DINGIR-MEŠ gaš-ru-u₂-ti ša₂ nap-har ma-a-ti šu-pu-u {d}IMIN.BI at-tu-nu-ma | |
| 11' | [...] LUGAL ŠU₂ LUGAL KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 12' | [...] ⸢u₃⸣ {d}⸢nin⸣-lil₂ tak-lu₄ | |
| 13' | [... {d}taš-me]-⸢tu₄⸣ GEŠTU-2(diš) DAGAL{tu₄} iš-ru-ku-uš | |
| 14' | [... na-mir]-⸢tu₄⸣ ni-siq ṭup-šar-ru-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 15' | [...] a-lik mah-ri-[ia] | |
| 16' | [... šip-ru šu-a]-⸢tu la i⸣-[hu-uz-zu] | |
| 17' | [... sa-an]-⸢tak⸣-ki [...] | |
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
- 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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