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BWL pl. 59 K 07638 (P397225)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BWL pl. 59 K 07638 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397225 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| r? i' | ||
| 1 | [uŋ₃] lugal-la nu-me-a [...] | Without a king |
| 2 | [udu] sipad-bi in-nu [...] | The shepherd's sheep ... |
| 3 | [uŋ₃] ⸢ugula⸣ nu-me-a [...] | and if it was not for the overseer of the temple |
| 4 | [a gu₂]-⸢gal⸣-bi in-nu ⸢x⸣-[...] | The water of the Great Oval ... |
| 5 | [erin₂ nu]-⸢banda₃⸣{da} nu-tuku-a EREN₂-⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | The troops without ēšbanda-offerings, the envoys |
| 6 | [a-šag₄] ⸢engar⸣-ra in-nu A.⸢ŠA₃⸣ [...] | The field of the plowman has not been irrigated |
| 7 | [e₂ en]-bi nu nam ⸢E₂⸣ [...] | The lord of the house did not decide the fate of the temple |
| 8 | [munus] ⸢nita⸣ nu-tuku ⸢MUNUS⸣ [...] | (If) a woman does not have a female slave: the female slave . |
| 9 | [...] ⸢lugal⸣-e he₂-⸢tuku⸣ [...] | ... may the king have ... |
| 10 | [...] ⸢ni₂⸣ teŋ₃-⸢bi⸣ [...] | ... the enīb priestess, the te’ebi priestesses ... |
| 11 | [...] a₂-⸢tuku⸣ [...] | ... strength |
| 12 | [...] diŋir-⸢ra⸣ [...] | ... Ibirae |
| 13 | [...] | |
| 14 | [...]-IB ⸢lugal-ra⸣ [...] | ... kingship |
| 15 | [...]-⸢ab⸣-be₂ [...] | ... its ... |
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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