BMS 57 (P398391)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 57 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398391 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By King, Leonard W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | O Išḫara, merciful mother [. . .] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, whose (personal) god [. . .] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | On account of the evil of a lunar eclipse, which [. . .] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | The evil of signs (and) portents [. . .] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | In my palace and [my] land [. . .] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | On account of that, I turn to you, I call [to you, . . .] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | Because a requittal of favor [. . .] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | I sprinkle for you a nocturnal offering [. . .] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | Pure, sweet beer [. . .] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | I offer to you a muḫru-[offering . . .] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | I present myself to you [. . .] |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | O Išḫara, at [your] feet [. . .] |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | Lady of the lands, at [your] feet [. . .] |
| Obverse [14:15] o 15'15'–o 15'15' | Cast out anything that is not [. . .] |
| Obverse [15:16] o 16'16'–o 16'16' | Whatever evil that [. . .] |
| Obverse [16:17] o 17'17'–o 17'17' | The "hand-of-a-god"-illness [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | {⸢d}iš-ha-ra⸣ AMA re-⸢mi⸣-[ni-tu₄ ...] | |
| 3' | ana-ku NENNI A NENNI ša₂ DINGIR{šu₂} [...] | |
| 4' | ina HUL AN.GE₆ {d}3(u) ša₂ [...] | |
| 5' | HUL A₂-MEŠ GISKIM-[MEŠ ...] | |
| 6' | ša₂ ina E₂.GAL-MU u ⸢KUR⸣-[MU ...] | |
| 7' | a-na šu-a-ti NIGIN{ki} ⸢al⸣-[si-ki ...] | |
| 8' | aš-šum gi-mil dum-qi₂ ⸢e⸣-[...] | |
| 9' | as-ruq-ki si-riq ⸢GE₆⸣ [...] | |
| 10' | za-ka-a da-aš₂-pa ku-ru-⸢un⸣-[na ...] | |
| 11' | u₂-ma-hir-ki mu-[uh-ru ...] | |
| 12' | ZI{ti} ub-lak-ki [...] | |
| 13' | {d}iš-ha-ra ina ⸢šap⸣-[li-ki ...] | |
| 14' | be-let KUR.KUR ina ⸢šap⸣-[li-ki ...] | |
| 15' | dup-pi-ri mim-ma ⸢NU⸣ [...] | |
| 16' | mim-ma lem-nu ⸢ša₂⸣ [...] | |
| 17' | ŠU.⸢DINGIR⸣.[RA ...] | |
| 18' | x [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] MI ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] TAR ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢TU₂ LU⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢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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