K 08803 (P397764)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08803 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397764 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
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| Line | English |
|---|---|
| a [0:1] a 1'a 1'–a 1'a 1' | [. . .] curse has seized [me and . . .] |
| a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2' | [. . . may] I be whole. Whatever I pl[an . . .] |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | [Est]ablish truth [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4' | [. . .] favorable word [. . .] |
| a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5' | May [. . .] and attendant spea[k . . .] |
| a [5:6] a 6'6'–a 6'6' | [May] my (personal) god [st]and [. . .] |
| a [6:7] a 7'7'–a 7'7' | [May] my (personal) goddess [st]and [. . .] |
| a [7:8] a 8'8'–a 8'8' | May [. . .] and a favorable divine guardian be attached [. . .] |
| a [8:9] a 9'9'–a 9'9' | [Generously be]stow on me attentio[n . . .] |
| a [9:10] a 10'10'–a 10'10' | [. . . of (my) sp]eech, [my] command [. . .] |
| a [10:11] a 11'11'–a 11'11' | [. . .] of the great [prince] Marduk [. . .] |
| a [11:12] a 12'12'–a 12'12' | [. . .] to live (lit. walk about) [. . .] truly. |
| a [12:13] a 13'13'–a 13'13' | May [. . .] rejoice on account of you. [. . .] Nudimmud [. . .] |
| a [13:14] a 14'14'–a 14'14' | [. . .] of the heavens and the earth [. . .] |
| a [14:15] a 15'15'–a 15'15' | [. . .] of earth(?) [. . . |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| a | ||
| 1' | [...] NAM.⸢RIM⸣ DAB{[ni}ma ...] | |
| 2' | [... lu]-⸢uš⸣-lim-ma e-ma a-⸢kap⸣-[pu-du ...] | |
| 3' | [šu-uš]-⸢kin₂⸣ kit-tu₄ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] INIM SIG₅{tu₄} [...] | |
| 5' | [...] u man-za-zu liq-bu-[u ...] | |
| 6' | [li-iz]-⸢ziz⸣ DINGIR-MU [...] | |
| 7' | [li-iz]-⸢ziz⸣ {d}1(u) 5(diš)-MU [...] | |
| 8' | [...] {⸢d⸣}LAMA SIG₅ li-ra-⸢kis⸣ [...] | |
| 9' | [šu-ut-li]-⸢ma⸣-am-ma taš-ma-[a ...] | |
| 10' | [... a-ta]-⸢mu⸣-u₂ qi₂-⸢bi⸣-[ti ...] | |
| 11' | [... NUN] ⸢GAL⸣{i} {d}AMAR.UTU [...] | |
| 12' | [...] ⸢ki⸣-niš a-tal₂-lu-kam [...] | |
| 13' | [...] ⸢HE₂⸣.HUL₂-ka {⸢d⸣}[nu-dim₂-mud ...] | |
| 14' | [...] ⸢AN⸣{e} u KI{⸢tim⸣} [...] | |
| 15' | [...] ⸢KI{tim⸣} [...] | |
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
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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