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MC 24, no. 15 (P397559)
MONUMENTAL > Dedication, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | MC 24, no. 15 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397559 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | MONUMENTAL > Dedication |
| 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 2' | In the house ditto... my... daily, without interruption, before ditto and ditto |
| obverse 15' | ...... its charms are not good... |
| reverse 7' | In order to renovate the dilapidated sections of the temple that he has built for him |
| reverse 20' | May its people be destroyed |
| obverse 1' | Before Enlil and Ninlil |
| obverse 16' | ... supreme... on account of............. |
| reverse 13' | Because of the curses that he had caused to be caused to be caused to be afflicted, he should write my name on it and write my name on it. |
| obverse 12' | ... by the craft of the soldiers, like in the midst of the heavens... |
| reverse 16' | Its man: Enlil, the king of the kurkurra temple, whose wrath he smote, whose head he smote, |
| obverse 19' | ......... speckled 20 minas of adgi-aromatic... |
| reverse 15' | That man, whether a king or a eunuch, as much as there is, |
| reverse 10' | The chariot he brought out to the place where he was erected, and he brought out a scepter, a place not befitting him. |
| obverse 11' | The heart of his ladyship, like heaven, sat down. |
| obverse 14' | ... like a storm, like a storm..., like a storm... |
| reverse 5' | the one who decrees evil and wickedness for me |
| reverse 9' | they shall remove and by his own craft they shall establish anew and.... |
| reverse 12' | Because of this curse, a foreigner has sinned against him, he has sinned against him, and my name has sworn by the name of his inscription |
| obverse 8' | My greatness is exalted, whose deeds are pleasing,... |
| reverse 17' | May ditto, lord of the land of Sumer, overthrow his fierce heart and |
| reverse 18' | His name, his seed, his seed, his supplication and his prayers, the mouth of the people, he placed upon him. |
| obverse 13' | Go out like a storm, grow like a sakar tree... |
| obverse 17' | fierce..., supreme and supreme..., fitting for its divinity, and for its Enlilship |
| obverse 4' | ... I have come to you. May... of heaven and earth be appeased. May... be reconciled with all people. |
| obverse 5' | his country......... |
| obverse 18' | ... the exalted one, the exalted one, the exalted one, the one who reveres his great divinity,... to his Enlil-uti |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 10' | ....................... |
| obverse 9' | kalla stone, lapis lazuli, carnelian, duia stone, nirigi stone, nirmu-GIR stone |
| reverse 8' | These steles he entrusted to him, and he smote her, and he smote her, and he smote her, as many as there were. |
| reverse 4' | May his kingship come into existence in the midst of heaven and underworld. May his reign be everlasting. |
| reverse 6' | In order to destroy the property of its chariot, in order to destroy it with a reddish gold and precious stones, in order to increase your possessions, |
| obverse 7' | his supreme chariot (and) ebony that is his possessions, the awe-inspiring radiance of the black-headed (people) |
| reverse 21' | ...... |
| obverse 3' | Its ritual: In order to smite the wrath of his chariot, to make the numerous peoples happy |
| obverse 6' | His land is exalted, his people are stricken with abundance, he continually seeks out his shepherdship over his land. |
| reverse 3' | May the lords of heaven and earth forever be exalted. |
| reverse 2' | ... prostitute... |
| reverse 19' | 'May he make his name, his name, and his anger disappear, his limbs disappear, may he destroy from the mouth of the people of justice.' |
| reverse 11' | The one who this greatness is a singer, the one who changes (his) pronouncements, and the temple of the pure place where he does not see(?) |
| reverse 14' | that man be a king, or a governor, or a humanity of that name, |
| obverse 20' | 19...... |
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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