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K 08159 (P397517)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08159 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397517 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 7' | ... the scribe, you recite the incantation... |
| 10' | for Utu, the diviner |
| 11' | ... he built. |
| 8' | ... water, pure water,..., |
| 14' | I am the... of the gods, the judge of heaven and earth |
| 5' | ... whatever evil does not approach him |
| 18' | May he be holy, may he be purified(?) |
| 16' | n equids piled up, |
| 12' | of the Abgal(?) of Enki and Asalluhi |
| 1' | ...... |
| 6' | .... Ea in fire with a flint |
| 2' | ... the river(?) |
| 15' | ... he has given me... |
| 19' | ... you recite the incantation... to its place. |
| 21' | ...... |
| 20' | ... the haruspex |
| 3' | ... Night of the ni[ght], |
| 13' | he brought water to its standing water. |
| 17' | price of the pure hand of the holy cedar, |
| 9' | Incantation: O Utu, great judge |
| 4' | ... you sit in court and |
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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