CDLI Literary 002718.02, ex. 017 (P398181)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 002718.02, ex. 017 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398181 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By Oppenheim, A. Leo · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] 1'1'–6'6' | (...) "(slow) copper" [... you will see] someone at the opening (stirring) with a rake. You apply heat [ and once the mixture takes on] the appearance of mulled wine, you transfer it onto the top of a [fire brick]. Its name is tērsītu. |
| Obverse [6:10] 7'7'–10'10' | [You grind separately x minas of] tērsītu, 10 minas of būṣu-glass, [salicornia harṣu, (which is)] not measured, and 2/3 minas of carnelian-colored [sea shells, (which have been] "roasted" (...) |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [URUDU]-⸢HI⸣.A ⸢x⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | ⸢NA₄⸣ u URUDU-HI.A ⸢x⸣-[...] | |
| 3' | [mu]-⸢ter⸣-ri TA IGI ma-[am-ma ...] | |
| 4' | [šum-ma NA₄] ⸢pa⸣-an {giš}GEŠTIN ba-aš₂-⸢li⸣ [it-taš-kin] | |
| 5' | [ta-ba-ši]-il a-na ⸢UGU⸣ [a-gur-ri] | |
| 6' | [ta-na]-⸢az⸣-za-lam-ma ter-si-⸢ta⸣ [šum-šu₂] | |
| 7' | [x MA.NA] ⸢ter⸣-si-tu 10 MA.NA bu-⸢ṣu⸣ | |
| 8' | [har-ṣu la] ⸢ta⸣-a-a-ru 2/3 MA.NA [nam-ru-tum] | |
| 9' | [ša A.AB.BA] ⸢sa-an⸣-di qa-li-tum [...] | |
| 10' | [...]-⸢x⸣ [...] |
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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