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K 08270 (P397560)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08270 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397560 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL |
| 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 15' | (Property) of Anar-bani-apli, the shepherd who reveres your divinity, daily |
| reverse 16' | Be present in this ram, place (in it) a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious omens by the oracular command of your great divinity, and may I see them. |
| reverse 2' | Great lord, his lord: Ashurbanipal, prince, favorite of Anar, Bel and Nabû. |
| reverse 1' | Who restores the dead, who establishes the light for the people, |
| reverse 5' | (Property of) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 6' | For his life, the life of his days, |
| reverse 11' | Just as the tablets are written, a copy of Assyria and the land Akkad |
| reverse 7' | the base of the throne of his kingship, who hears his prayers, |
| reverse 12' | I wrote (and) collated (it) in tablets. |
| reverse 13' | On the bank of the Ezida, the temple of Nabû that is in Nineveh, my lord, I established. |
| reverse 8' | (If) he does not pay attention to his supplication, |
| reverse 10' | who is attentive to the wrath of the great gods, |
| reverse 14' | On account of this, Nabû, king of the totality of heaven and netherworld, |
| reverse 3' | shepherd who provides for the sanctuaries of the great gods, who establishes their sattukku offerings |
| reverse 4' | son of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 9' | Ea, the great crown, the scepter of the scepter, |
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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