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BMS 61 (P397572)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 61 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397572 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 22' | This is what is said (of) the bull |
| 4' | Its third is favourable and the evil will seize. |
| 13' | I constantly seek out the life of god and king. |
| 11' | On the second day, on the 14th day, on the 15th day: |
| 23' | Incantation: ama |
| 15' | To this, I did not stand. |
| 19' | May they bless you, may they bless you, and may the fierce Gilgamesh |
| 7' | Anu, his father, created her and |
| 16' | The evil of a lunar eclipse which (is) in month Nennu, day Nennu (is) set |
| 20' | Incantation: I do not know. |
| 10' | The curse related to a libation bowl, a cup-bearer and a table |
| 3' | Enti, sikkur-offering of the lands |
| 17' | You are the one who brings an ox to the ground and eats it |
| 21' | Incantation: O Damu and Gula. |
| 18' | You strew water in your mouth. You strew water in your lap. You strew water in your lap. |
| 14' | I speak the oath of the great gods. |
| 9' | and anything he created with us, and |
| 2' | ... and to/for the land... |
| 12' | On the 20th day, on the day of disappearance of the moon: a storm of evil. |
| 8' | they created heaven and earth, and |
| 6' | the creation of the sea, the wide land |
| 5' | Incantation: O daughter of Anu of the pure heavens |
| 24' | ......... |
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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