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K 09578 (P398200)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09578 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398200 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 14' | may Aur and Ninlil overthrow him fiercely, and |
| 13' | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name with my name, whether the king of the gods, Aur, or his sons, |
| 9' | (As for) the one who Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding, |
| 3' | Its ritual:.......... |
| 6' | ... will not approach and....... |
| 5' | ... it is favourable. |
| 2' | ... Nanu |
| 8' | The palace of Ashurbanipal, the king of the world, king of Assyria, who to the Divine Powers does not change, |
| 15' | May his name and his seed disappear from the land. |
| 7' | Incantation: You are the sage of the night. |
| 10' | Whoever among the kings who preceded me has not received that work, |
| 4' | ....... like that of a haruspex... |
| 12' | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| 11' | I wrote the word of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards your shrine, and I wrote (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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