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K 08437 (P397629)
CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Fables, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08437 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397629 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Fables |
| 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 9' | ... which is on the Tigris... |
| reverse 13' | my... that he...... |
| reverse 11' | ... who has become ill, 7... |
| reverse 14' | Eninna... to the one who... anything |
| reverse 19' | The lamb in the... tree |
| reverse 10' | ... the gate of the city... which... not... |
| obverse 6' | ... exalted |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| reverse 17' | Eninna, you strew meat before him and not... |
| reverse 8' | Eninna returned, to the one who is a thief, water of the gardener |
| obverse 4' | ...-ib(?) |
| obverse 5' | ...-ti |
| obverse 9' | ................... |
| obverse 8' | ...... |
| reverse 7' | ... a young man who is afraid of the erra-demon, : my eyes which are on Idgula, 7... |
| reverse 4' | ... the lips.... |
| reverse 12' | ... the gardener did not |
| obverse 11' | ...-iu |
| reverse 15' | The bkû-disease that has swollen...... |
| reverse 5' | ... galala means : her mouth... |
| reverse 18' | On my threshing floor... |
| reverse 16' | The one who is constantly frightened... |
| reverse 20' | in the city |
| obverse 10' | ... his |
| obverse 3' | ...-ti |
| reverse 2' | ...... |
| reverse 21' | ...... |
| reverse 6' | .......................... |
| reverse 3' | ...... he... and |
| obverse 7' | ... of the house |
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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