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K 09890 (P398379)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09890 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398379 |
| 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 col 1' 3' | Like a bull all day |
| reverse col 1' 4' | Like the one who... an ox |
| reverse col 2' 3' | I wrote, collated, and checked it on a tablet. |
| reverse col 1' 1' | For her... horns |
| reverse col 2' 4' | for my reading, |
| reverse col 1' 2' | ...... |
| obverse col 1' 4 | ... of gold |
| reverse col 2' 1' | Whoever among the kings who preceded me, should know this work. |
| reverse col 1' 6' | The scorpion that has smashed the wild bull... |
| reverse col 2' 8' | may Aur and Ninlil overthrow him in fierce rage and make his name (and) his seed disappear from the land. |
| reverse col 2' 7' | Whoever breaks the contract, whether his name or my name, |
| reverse col 2' 2' | The wisdom of Nabû, the one who carries off your sands, as many as there are |
| obverse col 1' 1 | ... Enlil |
| obverse col 1' 2 | ... ama |
| reverse col 1' 5' | ... which was not his... lapis lazuli |
| obverse col 1' 3 | ... silver |
| reverse col 2' 6' | The scepter is unceasing. |
| reverse col 2' 5' | in my palace he established. |
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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