BMS 018 (P396811)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 018 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396811 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [. . .] upon your countenance |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | Your [cou]ntenance is greater than [. . .] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | You see [. . ] of the people. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [. . .], you see their oracular signs. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [. . .] you indeed spare him. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [. . .] on your (garment's) hem. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [. . . I] run behind you. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | [. . . a strewn] offering (of flour) |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [. . .] my [pr]ayer. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | May [. . .] blow over me that |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [(My) life] may be long! |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [. . .] to the far-flung people. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [It is the wording of a lifted-hand pra]yer to Marduk. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [... to] Marduk . . . a censer of juniper |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [. . .] you set up. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [. . .] you recite three times. |
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' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢x⸣ qu ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] pa-nu-uk-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 4' | [... pa]-⸢nu⸣-ka ma-a-⸢du⸣ | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ ta-bar-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 6' | [...] ⸢UZU⸣-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ta-na-ṭal | |
| 7' | [...] ta-⸢ga-mil⸣-šu₂ at-ta | |
| 8' | [...] i-na qa-an-ni-ka | |
| 9' | [...]-šu₂ | |
| 10' | [... a]-⸢la⸣-su-um ⸢ur-ki-ka⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [... ser]-⸢qu⸣ | |
| 2' | [... un-ni]-ni-ia | |
| 3' | [... li]-⸢zi⸣-qam-ma | |
| 4' | [ZI{tim]} ⸢li⸣-ri-ik | |
| 5' | [... a]-⸢na⸣ UN-MEŠ DAGAL-MEŠ | |
| 6' | [KA-INIM-MA ŠU-IL₂]-⸢LA₂⸣ {d}TU.TU-KAM | |
| 7' | [... ana {d]}⸢AMAR⸣.UTU NIG₂.NA ŠIM.⸢LI⸣ | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢x⸣ GAR{⸢an⸣} | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢x⸣ 3(diš)-šu₂ ŠID{⸢nu⸣} | |
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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