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Shurpu 5-6 E (P398047)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shurpu 5-6 E |
|---|---|
| ID | P398047 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|
| col 1' 4' | Your..., which you have known, |
| col 1' 2' | Asalluhi did not know, did he not know, did he not know it? |
| col 1' 9' | .... who guards the black-headed. |
| col 1' 3' | ... Marduk, why do you not know? What...? |
| col 1' 15' | ... may he take counsel, and |
| col 1' 13' | ... did not have strength. |
| col 1' 17' | ... the midst of battle, the midst of that man, |
| col 1' 6' | ... Asalluhi |
| col 1' 7' | ... Marduk |
| col 1' 10' | whose limbs cannot be changed |
| col 1' 11' | ... guarding, his mouth cannot be changed. |
| col 1' 8' | not to be loosened |
| col 1' 1' | ...... above......... |
| col 1' 14' | ... mashtakal-plant |
| col 1' 16' | he smote the sasal net of that man |
| col 1' 5' | ... you know..., you know... |
| col 1' 12' | whose strength is unrivaled |
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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