BMS 022 (P396845)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 022 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396845 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| a [0:1] a 1a 1–a 1a 1 | Canopy of habitatio[ns, . . .] |
| a [1:2] a 22–a 22 | Your name in the mouth of [. . .] |
| a [2:3] a 33–a 33 | Great son of the prince, Marduk, [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 44–a 44 | At your august utterance, [. . .] |
| a [4:5] a 55–a 55 | I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, (am) sic[k . . .], |
| a [5:6] a 66–a 66 | Who [. . .] the hand of a ghost, witchcra[ft ...] |
| a [6:7] a 77–a 77 | May I be healthy, may I become whole. [. . .] |
| a [7:8] a 88–a 88 | Place truth in my mouth. [. . .] |
| a [8:9] a 99–a 99 | [. . .] courtier (and) attendant [. . .] |
| a [9:10] a 1010–a 1010 | May my (personal) god stand at [my] right side, [. . .] |
| a [10:11] a 1111–a 1111 | [. . .] a favorable divine protector and guardian [. . .] |
| a [11:12] a 1212–a 1212 | Generously bestow on me [. . .] |
| a [12:13] a 1313–a 1313 | [. . .] the utterance of (my) spee[ch . . .] |
| a [13:14] a 1414–a 1414 | The great son of the prince [Marduk . . .] |
| a [14:15] a 1515–a 1515 | [In] your [presence] tru[ly . . .] |
| a [15:16] a 1616–a 1616 | May [Sha]zu (i.e., Marduk) rejoice [on account of you, . . .] |
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 | an-dul-lu ⸢da⸣-ad₂-[mi ...] | |
| 2 | zi-kir-ka ina KA [...] | |
| 3 | DUMU NUN{e} GAL{u₂} {d}AMAR.UTU [...] | |
| 4 | ina siq-ri-ka DUGUD [...] | |
| 5 | ana-ku NENNI A NENNI mar-[ṣu ...] | |
| 6 | ša₂ ŠU.GIDIM.MA UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.⸢RU⸣.[DA ...] | |
| 7 | lu-ub₂-luṭ lu-⸢uš⸣-lim-ma [...] | |
| 8 | šu-uš-kin₂ kit-ti ina KA-⸢ia⸣ [...] | |
| 9 | ti-i-ru man-za-za [...] | |
| 10 | li-iz-ziz DINGIR-MU ina ZAG-[MU ...] | |
| 11 | {d}ALAD SIG₅ {d}LAMMA SIG₅ [...] | |
| 12 | šu-ut-li-ma-am-⸢ma⸣ [...] | |
| 13 | zi-kir a-ta-[mu-u₂ ...] | |
| 14 | ⸢DUMU⸣ NUN GAL {d}[AMAR.UTU ...] | |
| 15 | [IGI]-ka ki-[niš ...] | |
| 16 | {[d}ŠA₃].⸢ZU HE₂⸣.[HUL₂-ka ...] | |
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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