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Sin and Sanction 136-137 (P397993)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šigû Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sin and Sanction 136-137 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397993 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šigû Prayer |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 5' | Your greatness is unrivaled. |
| reverse 4' | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| obverse 2 | May the god take my... counsel. |
| reverse 1' | ... the work... he did not pay attention to that work |
| obverse 8 | (As for) the one who swore (this) god, |
| obverse 9 | your house that you have given to my friend |
| reverse 6' | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name with my name, |
| obverse 11 | I have sinned, I have sinned, I have sinned. |
| reverse 7' | May Aur and Mullissu overthrow him with fierce rage. |
| obverse 5 | You recite the incantations that I have done. |
| reverse 2' | the wisdom of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards the shrines, as many as there are |
| obverse 7 | From the day my lord gave me instructions, |
| reverse 8' | May his name and his seed disappear from the land. |
| obverse 10 | My boat, the ground, the place where my black-headed people dwell, was destroyed. |
| obverse 6 | May my judgments be carried out daily. |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: O igu'u, I have gathered you, the gods are not agreeable. |
| obverse 3 | Who determines my utterances, |
| reverse 3' | I wrote, collated, and collated it on tablets. |
| obverse 12 | ... I am able to... |
| obverse 4 | May he resound the rejoicing utterances to me. |
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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