BMS 18 (P396937)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 18 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396937 |
| 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 [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [. . . strewn] offering (of flour) |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [. . .] upon your countenance |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | Your [countenance] is greater than [. . .] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [. . .], you see [. . .] of the people. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [. . .] you see their [oracular sign]s. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [. . . you] indeed spare him. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | I [grasp] like [a courtier] your (garment's) hem. |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [Li]ke Marduk's puppy, I ru[n behi]nd you. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | I [lif]t up a food offering, I scat[ter] a strewn offering (of flour). |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | [Rel]ease my misfortune, accept my prayer. |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | May your pleasant [breeze] blow [over me (that my) life] may be long! |
| Obverse [14:15] o 15'15'–o 15'15' | [Let me] tell of [your] grea[tness to the] far-flung [peopl]e. |
| Obverse [15:16] o 16'16'–o 16'16' | It is [the w]ordi[ng of a lifted-hand prayer to M]arduk. |
| Obverse [16:17] o 17'17'–o 17'17' | [. . .] you do (the ritual) [. . .] |
| Obverse [17:18] o 18'18'–o 18'18' | [. . .] king . . . |
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' | [...] ⸢u x⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢x⸣-e | |
| 4' | [... ser]-⸢qu-x⸣ | |
| 5' | [...] pa-nu-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 6' | [... pa-nu]-⸢ka⸣ ma-a-⸢du⸣ | |
| 7' | [...] ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ ta-bar-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 8' | [... UZU]-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ta-na-ṭal | |
| 9' | [... ta]-⸢ga⸣-mil-šu₂ at-⸢ta⸣ | |
| 10' | [ṣab-ta]-⸢ku-ma⸣ ki-⸢i⸣ [ti-i-ri ina] ⸢qa⸣-an-ni-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 11' | [ki]-i mu-ra-ni {d}⸢TU.TU⸣ a-⸢la-su⸣-[um ur]-⸢ki-ka⸣ | |
| 12' | [na]-⸢ša₂⸣-ku NIDBA a-sa-[raq] ⸢ser-qu⸣ | |
| 13' | [pu]-⸢ṭur⸣ NIG₂.GIG-MU ⸢li-qi₂ un⸣-ni-⸢ni-ia₅⸣ | |
| 14' | [IM]-⸢ka⸣ DU₈.GA li-zi-⸢qa⸣-[am-ma ZI]{⸢ti⸣} li-ri-ik | |
| 15' | [la]-ta-am ⸢nar⸣-[bi-ka ana UN]-⸢MEŠ⸣ DAGAL-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 16' | [KA]-⸢INIM⸣-[MA ŠU-IL₂-LA₂ {d]}⸢TU.TU⸣-KAM | |
| 17' | [...] ⸢DU₃{uš⸣} | |
| 18' | [...] ⸢LUGAL x⸣ | |
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- 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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