BMS 58 (P396704)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 58 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396704 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1' | [. . .] the shrine |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [. . . who guides] the purification rituals aright |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [. . .] the sage of the gods, the exalted one. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [. . .] who illuminates the darkness. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [. . . lord of wis]dom, who makes E'engura rejoice. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [. . . the god]s, who determines the fates. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [. . . who] provides an overabundance. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [. . .] you take care of [all] the people. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [. . . you best]ow on them well-being. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [I, so-and-so, son of] so-and-so, whose god (is) so-and-so, (and) goddess (is) so-and-so, |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [. . .] occurred [on] day so-and-so, |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [. . .] are present [in] my [pal]ace and my land, |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [. . . wh]ose body [is tor]mented. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | [. . . I] am bowed before you. |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [. . .] is set against [me]. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | [. . .] sorcery. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢ma-ha-zi⸣ | |
| 2' | [... muš-te]-⸢še⸣-ru šu-luh-⸢hi⸣ | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢ABGAL⸣ DINGIR-MEŠ mu-tal₂-⸢lu₄⸣ | |
| 4' | [...] mu-na-mir uk-li | |
| 5' | [... be-el ne-me]-qi₂ mu-riš E₂.ENGUR.RA | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [... DINGIR]-⸢MEŠ⸣ mu-šim NAM-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [... mu]-deš-šu-u₂ HE₂.NUN | |
| 3 | [... kul-lat UN]-MEŠ ta-pa-qid | |
| 4 | [... ta-ša-rak]-ši-na-ti šu-ul-ma | |
| 5 | [ana-ku NENNI A] NENNI ša₂ DINGIR-šu₂ NENNI {d}1(u) 5(diš)-šu₂ NENNI-tu₄ | |
| 6 | [... ina] U₄ NENNI GAR{na} | |
| 7 | [... ina E₂].GAL-MU u KUR{a} GAL₂{a} | |
| 8 | [... ša₂ šum-ru]-⸢ṣu⸣ pa-gar-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 9 | [...]-⸢x⸣ an-[x] | |
| 10 | [...] ⸢IGI⸣-ka ⸢kam-sa⸣-[ku] | |
| 11 | [...] ⸢šak⸣-na-⸢an⸣-[ni] | |
| 12 | [...] ⸢ru⸣-hu-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| 13 | [...] ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
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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