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BL 117 (P398275)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 117 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398275 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 3' | The true city is surrounded by a lion, it is a great flood. |
| reverse 11' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 10' | Written and checked according to its original. |
| reverse 9' | the wild bulls of his sheepfold are not finished. |
| reverse 7' | of Babylon, the young woman, her brother, they are not |
| reverse 6' | Their city, the mother, their children, they are not a single one. |
| reverse 5' | ... heaven |
| reverse 2' | When he has a son, he is his son. |
| reverse 4' | of Nippur Sippar, Babylon, and Basiabba |
| reverse 1' | who has a wife, his wife |
| reverse 8' | When you speak to Elum, your city, you will return. |
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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