BMS 47 (P397768)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 47 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397768 |
| 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 |
English translation
By King, Leonard W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | [Witchcraft, sorc]ery, and magic, |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | the evil [magical procedu]res, |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [miscarriage of justice, life-cutt]ing magic, seizure of the mouth, everything, |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | The things malformed [. . .] . . . to you. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [Let me glorify your great deeds] (and) sing your praises. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [The wording of a lifted-ha]nd prayer to the Pleiades. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [Its ritual]: You do (the ritual) with either a ritual assemblage or a censer. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [Incantation: King of the] mighty [god]s. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [Nth tablet] of shuila-incantations. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [Palace of Ashurban]ipal, king of [the world], king of the land [of Ashur], |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | [who trusts in Ashur] and [Ninlil], |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [ki-iš-pu ru-he]-e ru-⸢se⸣-[e] | |
| 2' | [up-ša-še-e₂] lem-nu-[ti] | |
| 3' | [DI.BAL.A ZI.KU₅.RU].⸢DA KA⸣.DAB.⸢BE₂⸣.DA DU₃.[A.BI] | |
| 4' | [...]-⸢ta-na-ku⸣-nu-ti la ba-a-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 5' | [nar-bi-ku-nu lu-ša-pi] ⸢da₃⸣-li₂-li₂-ku-nu lud-lul | |
| 6' | [KA-INIM-MA ŠU]-⸢IL₂⸣-LA₂ MUL-MUL-KE₄ | |
| 7' | [DU₃.DU₃.BI lu ina KEŠDA] ⸢lu⸣ NIG₂.NA DU₃{uš} | |
| 8' | [EN₂ LUGAL DINGIR]-⸢MEŠ⸣ gaš-ru-u₂-ti | |
| 9' | [DUB ... KAM] ⸢EN₂⸣ ŠU-IL₂-LA-KAM-ni | |
| 10' | [E₂.GAL {m}AN-ŠAR₂-DU₃]-⸢IBILA LUGAL ŠU₂⸣ LUGAL KUR ⸢AN⸣.[ŠAR₂{ki]} | |
| 11' | [ša a-na AN.ŠAR₂] ⸢u₃⸣ {[d}nin-lil₂ tak-lu₄] | |
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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