BMS 55 (P396802)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 55 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396802 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2' | ⸢I⸣, Ashurbanipal, <<whose (personal) deity>> (is) Ninurta(?) and (personal) g[oddess . . .] |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | On account of the evil of a lunar eclipse, which in the month [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4' | (On account of) the evil of portents (and) omens [. . .] |
| a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5' | Which are present in my palace and my land [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| a | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x IGI x DINGIR x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢ana⸣-[ku {m]}⸢aš-šur⸣-DU₃-A {d}MAŠ u {⸢d⸣}[iš₈-tar₂ ...] | |
| 3' | ina HUL AN.GI₆ {d}3(u) ša₂ ina ⸢ITI⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | HUL A₂-MEŠ GISKIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | ša ina E₂.GAL-MU u KUR-MU GAL₂{⸢a⸣} [...] | |
| 6' | ⸢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)
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