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Meier Maqlu 04 K 08057 (P397465)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Meier Maqlu 04 K 08057 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397465 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o iii | ||
| 1' | {d}⸢UTU⸣ [...] | “Eštar, |
| 2' | u₃ ši-⸢i {d⸣}[TIR.AN.NA ...] | and the šī-ēribi of E-Tiran |
| 3' | kiš-pi u₂-ḫal-⸢laq⸣ [...] | The witchcraft has been carried off |
| 4' | ip-šu₂ bar-⸢tum⸣ [...] ; ⸢u₂⸣-[šab-bal ...] | ... bar-etum-e-šabbal-plant |
| 5' | EN₂ ip-pu-ša₂-[ni ...] | Incantation: He performs ... |
| 6' | gu-ti-e-ti ⸢e⸣-[la-ma-a-tum ...] | The gutītu-priests of the Elamites |
| 7' | ma-rat KUR i-[rak-ka-sa-a-ni ...] | the queen of the land will make a treaty with me .... |
| 8' | 6 KEŠ₂-ši-⸢na⸣ [...] | 6 ... ... |
| 9' | ša₂ GE₆ ip-pu-ša₂-⸢nim⸣-[ma ...] | (If) it is dark: he will perform it and . |
| 10' | ša₂ kal u₄-⸢mu⸣ ip-pu-ša₂-[nim-ma ...] | who all day every day performs and |
| 11' | a-šak-kan-ši-⸢na⸣-[ti ...] | Asakkanši-ena-e-ti |
| 12' | ⸢qa-li⸣-i [...] ; [...] {⸢munus⸣}[UŠ₁₁.ZU.MEŠ ...] | The qalû-demon |
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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