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Bit Rimki pl. 02, no. 05 (P397984)
Ritual and liturgical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Bit Rimki pl. 02, no. 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397984 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Ritual and liturgical |
| 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 2' | the fierce crown of An, the rites of the throne |
| obverse 1' | Incantation: O lord, from pure heaven and dais, |
| obverse 4' | Your great command, mother, father, birth mother, justice, justice, |
| reverse 7' | Incantation: ama, king of heaven and earth, lord of truth and justice |
| reverse 2' | May your greatness be praised by the god of the king. |
| obverse 12' | he set up the esheshu priestess with silver and gold. |
| reverse 10' | The palace of Ashurbanipal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 15' | to be set up |
| reverse 5' | And I, the cook, your servant, make a basket for you |
| obverse 14' | is not present |
| obverse 5' | from the pure stele to the lord of Imbabbar |
| obverse 10' | from the pure threshing floor he shall remove. |
| obverse 16' | ... |
| reverse 6' | Wording of a kiutu-commentary |
| reverse 12' | scribal art he presented to him as a gift. |
| reverse 1' | His prayer is sweet, his beer is sweet, his liver is sweet |
| obverse 3' | The physician of the land... everything |
| reverse 3' | May its king live! May the lord, when you live, decree your greatness! |
| reverse 4' | whose kingship is perfected |
| obverse 11' | your donkey stallions and barley piled up. |
| obverse 7' | The bright eye makes the way to the road |
| obverse 13' | I want to make bricks, I want to make bricks, I want to make bricks with lapis lazuli. |
| reverse 8' | When you have reached the incantation Utu, the great mountain |
| reverse 11' | of Nabû and Tashmetu became frightened and like father and mother they brought him. |
| reverse 13' | Your greatness is unrivaled. |
| obverse 8' | the judge of the land and the en-ship |
| reverse 9' | When you open the mouths of the wood of Assyria and Akkad, |
| obverse 9' | by Utu the great lord king of all the universe |
| obverse 6' | daughter of Utuda and mother Ningal |
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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