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K 08123 (P397502)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08123 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397502 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 1 4 | before Marduk, Adad, Ninurta, the great gods |
| reverse col 2 1 | Its ritual: The 'farmer' will live, and if he eats the field |
| reverse col 2 8 | For Ninkilim |
| reverse col 2 13 | by Ninkilim in the first place |
| reverse col 1 9 | You pound the great lions of Ninkilim. |
| reverse col 1 10 | The reeds of their mouths, the apprehension, |
| reverse col 1 6 | Nisannu, silver, gold, |
| reverse col 1 16 | By the command of Marduk, the lord who engendered me |
| reverse col 2 6 | You set up a libation bowl of honey and butter. |
| reverse col 1 15 | For the ruin of the heavens,... |
| reverse col 2 2 | ...... field |
| reverse col 1 2 | I came with you, and I prayed to you. |
| reverse col 2 7 | The throne of Ninkilim does not stand in the middle of the 'finger.' |
| reverse col 2 14 | Your dogs are swollen and you are swollen. |
| reverse col 2 4 | Wherever he has seen the barley and silver..., |
| reverse col 1 1 | I, the incantation priest of Anu, Asallue |
| reverse col 1 7 | He who designs the mountain, enlarges the riu-disease |
| reverse col 2 11 | He should not eat bread, (or) his head will hurt him. |
| reverse col 2 5 | You recite the incantation 1. |
| reverse col 1 13 | They... their... |
| reverse col 1 8 | sweet..., supplication, |
| reverse col 2 9 | like a great...... |
| reverse col 1 17 | According to the command of Adad, he will be well. |
| reverse col 2 10 | when the Lion rises |
| reverse col 1 3 | Your ritual: You recite the pure sacrificial sheep, the pure sacrificial sheep. |
| reverse col 1 5 | [Your] oath, |
| reverse col 1 11 | a guardian of their mouths, a thief |
| reverse col 2 12 | (If) his breast is small and is swollen |
| reverse col 1 14 | their hands, the capture of their hands |
| reverse col 1 12 | On the field in the meadow this is a reed |
| reverse col 2 3 | The upper and lower part is elevated. |
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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