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K 08596 + K 09755 + K 13551 (P397693)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Kiutu; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08596 + K 09755 + K 13551 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397693 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Kiutu; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | as an interest-bearing interest on the plain |
| 19' | I am Utu, the exalted judge of heaven and earth |
| 18' | I am the handiwork of Utu, Anu and Enlil |
| 2' | to Utu of the Land he raised up. |
| 9' | of Utu, I am the foremost of the gods |
| 3' | the god Utu, the divine radiance of heaven, covered all the lands. |
| 13' | I am Nigsisa of heaven standing |
| 4' | to set the light in front of the Land |
| 17' | The god Utu, like a lioness he smote for you. |
| 15' | who knows everything, who knows everything |
| 14' | I am the one who sees truth in all the lands |
| 12' | he made the many people tremble |
| 11' | From the threshing floor of An and Enlil to the threshing floor he set up. |
| 10' | I am the gatekeeper of the Anuna gods |
| 7' | Utu looked at him like the mother of their father |
| 1' | he opened the door of heaven |
| 5' | to set straight the feet of the land |
| 8' | They poured water on them, they poured water on them. |
| 16' | the god ama raised his neck for justice |
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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