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K 07888 (P397349)

CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation	K 07888
ID	P397349
Museum no.	BM —
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Genre	CANONICAL
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)
reverse 3'	Whoever among the kings comes to me,
reverse 4'	Anyone in the future who comes forward should know of this work.
reverse 2'	The first-fruits offerings are pure, the offering of the scribal art.
reverse 8'	Its ritual: you do not follow the king of the gods.
reverse 11'	May his name and his seed disappear from the land.
reverse 7'	For my reading, he established it in my palace.
reverse 6'	I wrote, collated, and collated it with a tablet.
reverse 10'	May Aur and Mullissu overthrow him, and
reverse 1'	which Nabu and Tashmetu gave great wisdom(?)
reverse 9'	Whoever breaks the contract or his name with my name,
reverse 5'	The wisdom of Nabû is sweet, your sand dunes as many as there are.

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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