BMS 37 (P397902)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 37 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397902 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| side a [0:1] side a 1'side a 1'–side a 1'side a 1' | [. . .] heaven[s . . .] |
| side a [1:2] side a 2'2'–side a 2'2' | [. . .] earth [. . .] |
| side a [2:3] side a 3'3'–side a 3'3' | [. . . your] heart [. . .] |
| side a [3:4] side a 4'4'–side a 4'4' | [. . .] wife [. . .] |
| side a [4:5] side a 5'5'–side a 5'5' | [May . . .] establish my life [. . .] |
| side a [5:6] side a 6'6'–side a 6'6' | [It is the wording of a] shuila-prayer to [. . .] |
| side a [6:7] side a 7'7'–side a 7'7' | [. . .] most exalted, merciful mother [. . .] |
| side a [7:8] side a 8'8'–side a 8'8' | [. . .] stand neaby and listen [. . .] |
| side a [8:9] side a 9'9'–side a 9'9' | [. . .] the hem of my (personal) god's and goddess's (garments), [. . .] the hem of [. . .] |
| side a [9:10] side a 10'10'–side a 10'10' | [. . .] judging [. . .] a decision, |
| side a [10:11] side a 11'11'–side a 11'11' | [. . .] maintaining life are [. . .] |
| side a [12:13] side a 13'13'–side a 13'13' | [. . .] mer[ciful] mother [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| side a | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢AN⸣-[e ...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢KI{tim⸣} [...] | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢MEŠ ŠA₃⸣-[ka ...] | |
| 4' | [...] hi-ir-⸢tu⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | [... li]-kin na-piš-ti ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [KA-INIM-MA] ⸢ŠU⸣-IL₂-LA₂ [...] | |
| 7' | [...] šur-bu-tum AMA re-me₂-ni-⸢tum⸣ [...] | |
| 8' | [... i]-ziz-zi-im-ma ši-mi-i [...] | |
| 9' | [...] TUG₂.SIG₂ DINGIR-MU u {d}1(u) 5(diš)-MU TUG₂.⸢SIG₂⸣ [...] | |
| 10' | [...] ⸢da⸣-a-ni EŠ.BAR [...] | |
| 11' | [...] ⸢šul⸣-lu-mu GAL₂{u} [...] | |
| 12' | [...]-⸢ba⸣ ti-[...] | |
| 13' | [...] ⸢AMA re⸣-[ni-tum ...] | |
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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