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Zukunftsbewältigung 540, K 09404 (P398092)
Ritual, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Zukunftsbewältigung 540, K 09404 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398092 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Ritual |
| 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 9' | NIR2 stone |
| obverse 3' | In Aguziga... |
| reverse 2' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 2' | (If) there is a throne and a small neck inside it and sits in a halo. |
| reverse 5' | The eye of the awe-inspiring brilliance of the scribal art, |
| obverse 8' | You libate first-rate beer. In the oil, carnelian, lapis lazuli |
| reverse 4' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| obverse 4' | Before ama, the doorkeeper, he... |
| reverse 1' | [Tablet...], eponym year of... |
| reverse 8' | the wisdom of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards the shrines, as many as there are |
| reverse 3' | who trusts in Aur and Mullissu |
| obverse 6' | You set up 3 libations. You set up 7 libations. |
| obverse 5' | dates, ebony,, |
| obverse 7' | You set in place a censer of juniper. |
| reverse 7' | anyone who this work does not know |
| obverse 1' | ... reed, silver, gold |
| reverse 10' | I deposited it in my palace for my reading. |
| obverse 10' | ...-stone, papparmnu-stone, papparmnu-stone |
| reverse 6' | which among the kings who came before me |
| reverse 9' | I wrote, collated, and collated it in tablets. |
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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