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K 08039 (P397453)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08039 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397453 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse? 14' | ...... a place of relaxation. |
| obverse? 2' | ... qalal... |
| obverse? 13' | ... a prince will die. |
| reverse? 6 | ... sees: that house will go out. |
| reverse? 9 | ...... |
| reverse? 5 | ..... he will build that house. |
| obverse? 16' | ... the king of the land will die. |
| obverse? 6' | ................. |
| obverse? 12' | ................. a god's temple. |
| obverse? 7' | ................. |
| obverse? 11' | ..., the food offering of Itar, |
| reverse? 4 | .... who goes into a man's house,...,... |
| reverse? 8 | ........ his (personal) god will be seen. |
| reverse? 17 | ... house(?)... barley |
| reverse? 15 | ... that... will have a god. |
| obverse? 5' | ... the... of the apsû |
| obverse? 3' | ....... |
| obverse? 4' | ...................... |
| obverse? 8' | ... he took up residence in the city. That city he built anew. |
| reverse? 10 | ...... |
| obverse? 1' | ... his... mouth(?) |
| obverse? 10' | ........ a god's temple, that temple will be smitten. |
| reverse? 3 | ...... |
| obverse? 9' | ... will fall. Ditto and ditto. |
| reverse? 11 | ... of the gods, he built it. |
| obverse? 15' | ... the gods of the land of Akalla; |
| reverse? 13 | ... a bed that emerges from the house |
| reverse? 16 | ... his illness |
| reverse? 7 | .... a man's wife is constantly ill. |
| reverse? 14 | ... that man his sons will kill him |
| reverse? 1 | ... of the eyes(?) of that city |
| reverse? 12 | ... a man will die |
| reverse? 2 | ...... |
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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