BMS 41 (P397372)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 41 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397372 |
| 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 |
English translation
By King, Leonard W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [Its ritual: You do (it)] with either a ritual assemblage or a censer. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [Incantation]: O wise king, discerning creator. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [The palace of] Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of the land of Assyria, |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [to whom ] Nabu and Tashmetu gave wisdom, |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [who h]as sharp eyes, the highest level of the scribal art |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [that no one among the king]s who preceded me possessed such skill, |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [the wisdom of] Nabu, cuneiform writing, as much as there is, |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [. . .] . . . my life |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [. . .] my health. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [DU₃.DU₃.BI] lu ina ⸢KEŠDA lu⸣ ina NIG₂.⸢NA⸣ [DU₃{uš]} | |
| 2' | [EN₂] LUGAL ne₂-me-qi₂ ba-nu-u ta-šim-ti | |
| 3' | [E₂.GAL] {m}AN.ŠAR₂.DU₃.IBILA LUGAL ŠU₂ LUGAL KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 4' | [ša {d]}⸢AG⸣ u {d}taš-me-tu₄ GEŠTU-2(diš) DAGAL⸣{tu₄} iš-ru-ku-uš | |
| 5' | [i-hu]-⸢zu⸣ IGI-2(diš) na-mir-tu₄ ni-siq ṭup-šar-ru-u-ti | |
| 6' | [ša ina LUGAL]-⸢MEŠ⸣{ni} a-lik mah-ri-ia mam₂-ma šip-ru šu₂-a-tu₂ la i-hu-zu | |
| 7' | [ne₂-me-eq] {⸢d⸣}AG ti-kip sa-an-tak-ki ma-la ba-aš-mu | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ ZI{ti₃}ia₂ | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢TI⸣{ia} | |
| 10' | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
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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