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MSL 05, 146 (P397553)
lexical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | MSL 05, 146 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397553 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | lexical |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| i | ||
| 1' | ⸢ŋeš-nud umbin⸣ [gud] [...] | ... ox or bull |
| 2' | ŋeš-nud siki ga-⸢rig₂ AK-a⸣ [...] | I want to shave my hair and ... my hair. |
| 3' | ŋeš-nud šag₄-tuku₅ [...] | The šagtuku-festival |
| 4' | ŋeš-nud {<MIN(šag₄-tuku₅)>} siki ga-rig₂ AK-a [...] | “Did you know that I have shaved my head and twisted my hair? |
| 5' | ŋeš-nud {<MIN(šag₄-tuku₅)>} siki ⸢uzud⸣ AK-a [...] | The “distant’ (and) the wool of the ēru-vessel(?) |
| 6' | ŋeš-nud uri{ki}ŋa₂-⸢dam⸣ [...] | The šunud of Ur |
| 7' | ŋeš-nud uri{ki}ŋa₂-dam [...] | The bed of Ur was laid down |
| 8' | ŋeš-nud ⸢urim₂{ki⸣} [...] | Night of the Eurim temple |
| 9' | ŋeš-nud uri{⸢ki⸣} [...] | Night of Ur ... |
| 10' | ŋeš-nud ⸢ka-muš⸣ [...] | The one who lies down in the kamuš temple |
| 11' | {⸢ŋeš⸣}saŋ an-dul ⸢nud⸣ [...] | The eš-sa-plant, the canopy, the nudu-plant |
| 12' | {[ŋeš]}saŋ ⸢nud⸣ [...] | The sa-offerings of the ešnud-festival |
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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