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BL 181 (P398138)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 181 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398138 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] | |
| 5' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| [...] x [...] | ||
| 2' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| [...]-⸢šum⸣-ma ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... and ... | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢e⸣-NE {lu₂}⸢erim₂⸣ [...] | ... the enemy |
| [...]-ia hu-ul-liq a-a-bi-[ia ...] | ... destroyed my ..., my enemies ... | |
| 4' | [... ka-tar nam]-en-na-zu uŋ₃-ŋa₂ i₃-⸢si⸣-[il-si-il] | (Sum) ... your en priesthood, he fills it with tears (Akk) The ... of your lordship fills you with tears |
| [...] be-lu-ti-ka ni-⸢šu⸣ [...] | ... of your lordship | |
| 5' | ⸢dim₃⸣-me-er-ŋu₁₀ mu-lu siškur₂-ra-ke₄ ⸢siškur₂⸣ [de₃-ra-ab-be₂] | May the one of the siškur prayer utter an arazu prayer to you |
| 6' | ⸢amalu⸣-ŋu₁₀ mu-lu a-ra-zu-⸢ke₄⸣ [a-ra-zu de₃-<(ra-ab-be₂)>] | May the one of prayer utter an arazu prayer to you |
| 7' | 10 }} i-bi₂ zid bar-mu-un-ši-⸢ib₂⸣ [de₃-<(ra-ab-be₂)>] | 10 (tablets of) "Look faithfully to Barmunsvi-eriba" may he say to you |
| 8' | gu₂-zu zig₃-mu-un-⸢ši⸣-[ib₂ de₃-<(ra-ab-be₂)>] | May he/she say to you "raise your neck towards him" |
| 9' | šag₄-zu de₃-en-⸢na⸣-[huŋ-ŋa₂ de₃-<(ra-ab-be₂)>] | May he say to you "may your heart be pacified to him" |
| 10' | bar-zu de₃-⸢en⸣-[na-sed-de₃ de₃-<(ra-ab-be₂)>] | May he say to you "may your liver be soothed to him" |
| 11' | šag₄-zu šag₄ ⸢ama⸣ [tu-ud-da-gin₇ ki-bi-še₃ ha-ma-gi₄-gi₄] | May your heart, like the heart of a birth mother, be restored to its place for me |
| 12' | 5 }} ama tu-⸢ud⸣-[da a-a tu-ud-da-gin₇ ki-bi-še₃ <(ha-ma-gi₄-gi₄)>] | 5 (tablets of) “If a mother gives birth to a child, like a birth father, may it be restored to its place for me |
| 13' | er₂-⸢ša₃⸣-[huŋ-ŋa₂ x-am₃ mu-bi-im ...] | It is an erša-ehuŋa prayer of ... lines |
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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