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K 08920 (P397804)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08920 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397804 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 17' | ... who... will experience sorrow. |
| obverse 20' | ... will be long |
| obverse 21' | ... sorrow |
| reverse 13' | ... will fall. That man... |
| obverse 4' | ...: that day will be long; he will be satisfied. |
| reverse 3' | .... he strews everything of the king. |
| reverse 6' | ... he will have mercy, he will become happy, he will become happy. |
| reverse 8' | ... he will perform (the ritual). In the apsû of a female he will eat... |
| obverse 12' | ... |
| reverse 12' | ... UB means "to seize"... |
| reverse 11' | ..., whose days are long, |
| obverse 7' | ... his days will be in the middle of the mountain. |
| obverse 15' | ... will be long |
| obverse 16' | ... will be long |
| obverse 13' | ... he built. |
| obverse 9' | ... he will make... barley and silver in front of him. |
| obverse 19' | ..... after he has died. |
| reverse 7' | ... he has no rival. |
| obverse 6' | ... that day, LUGUD2.DA (means) : LUGUD2.DA (means) : LUGUD2.DA (means) : LUGUD2.DA (means) : LUGUD2.DA (means) : LUGUD2.DA (means) : |
| obverse 3' | ... that day, long life... |
| reverse 9' | ... his eyes you take... |
| obverse 11' | ... many sons... |
| obverse 5' | ...: that day will be long; its midst will be good; it will be good. |
| obverse 1' | .............. |
| obverse 22' | ... |
| obverse 14' | ... in the midst of the night, his 'heart' will be raised. |
| reverse 5' | ... she is a female kid, she is a woman. |
| obverse 8' | ... That day, the equivalent was: barley and silver. |
| obverse 18' | ................ |
| obverse 2' | ...... : the wife will not acquire. |
| reverse 2' | ... he strews..., he destroys everything of the god. |
| reverse 4' | ... she will make a woman happy for a man. |
| reverse 10' | ... is split, he will acquire life. |
| obverse 10' | ... it is a 'weapon'-mark and it is not good. |
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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