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HES 5, no. 2 C (P396908)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | HES 5, no. 2 C |
|---|---|
| ID | P396908 |
| 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 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| 16' | which in the pure rites and? which...... |
| 11' | abgal steward, enkum priest |
| 9' | The ensi, the cook, and the cook |
| 15' | the one who the holy me of the uzga ritual |
| 4' | The great stele in the morning was born. |
| 5' | he made the sand dunes of the fields of Damala and amarra. |
| 6' | The one who has sinned against greatness and greatness, has died from hunger. |
| 2' | ... great... in....... |
| 8' | The great snare was smashed in a snare. |
| 13' | gudu priest of the Abzu |
| 18' | In the land not... |
| 3' | from the Damal canal to the enmena canal |
| 1' | ... he built. |
| 10' | The ensû-demon, the ensû-demon, the ensû-demon, |
| 17' | the mountain that has not been restored |
| 14' | ... great...,.. |
| 7' | In the great garments, he sat down. |
| 12' | ... my utterance,... |
| 19' | ... |
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
- 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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