BMS 36 (P397924)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 36 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397924 |
| 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' | [. . .] your [. . .] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [. . .] my negligence [. . .] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [It is the wording of] a lifted-hand prayer [to Marduk]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [. . . a censer] of juniper in fire [. . .] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [. . .] a lifted-hand prayer [. . .] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [You recite this incantation three times] and (your) prayer wil[l be heard]. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [Pre-eminent of] the Igigi, exceedingly wi[se]. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [Palace of Ashur]banipal, king of the world, king of the land of As[hur], |
| 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 [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ZI ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] hi-ṭi₂-ti [...] | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢x⸣ šur-⸢ba⸣-[...] | |
| 5' | [KA-INIM-MA] ŠU-IL₂-LA₂ {⸢d⸣}[AMAR-UTU-KAM] | |
| 6' | [... NIG₂.NA] ŠIM.LI ina IZI ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | [...] ŠU.IL₂.LA [...] | |
| 8' | [EN₂ an-ni-tu₄ 3(diš)-šu₂ ŠID]-ma A.RA.ZU ⸢iš⸣-[šem-mi] | |
| 9' | [e-tel {d]}i₂-gi₃-gi₃ a-tar ha-si-[si] | |
| 10' | [E₂.GAL {m}AN-ŠAR₂]-⸢DU₃⸣-A 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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