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MSL 11, 138 Forerunner 4 (P398397)
Lexical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | MSL 11, 138 Forerunner 4 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398397 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Lexical |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o i' | ||
| 1' | [...]-x | |
| 2' | [...]-⸢nag⸣ | ... niphu |
| 3' | [...]-⸢nag-ga⸣ | ...-nagga'e |
| 4' | [...]-A | ...-a |
| 5' | [...]-⸢A⸣ | ...-ea-e23 |
| 6' | [...]-A | ...-a |
| 7' | [...]-ŋal₂ | ...-bal |
| 8' | [...]-UD | ...-UD |
| 9' | [...] bar-UD | ... bar-UD |
| 10' | [...] ⸢x-du₆⸣ | ... edu-house |
| 11' | [a-šag₄] ⸢ki⸣-bi-ŋar-ra | field Ebi-bara |
| 12' | [a-šag₄] {⸢u₂⸣}|KI.KAL| | a field in the meadow |
| 13' | [...] KAL | ... ... |
| 14' | [a-šag₄] {⸢u₂⸣}šeš | a field of ēšu-plant |
| 15' | [...] ⸢x-x⸣ | |
| 16' | [...] ⸢x-DAR-DAR⸣ | ... ... |
| 17' | [...] ⸢x⸣-HA-⸢x⸣ | ... eḫāšu-plant |
| 18' | [...] ⸢x-x-x⸣ | |
| 19' | [a-šag₄] ⸢ŋeš⸣-gi₄-a | field “Ešegia |
| 20' | [...]-|HA.A| | ...-HA.A |
| 21' | [a-šag₄ {ŋeš]}gul AK | field, irrigated |
| 22' | [a-šag₄ {ŋeš]}⸢al⸣ AK | a field |
| 23' | [...] AK | ... AK |
| 24' | [...] AK | ... AK |
| 25' | [...]-la₂ | ...-la |
| 26' | [...] ⸢A⸣ | ... eša’e |
| 27' | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 28' | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
| o ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢a-šag₄ dal-ba⸣-[na] | The “distortion-of-the-mound-demon"(?) |
| 2' | a-šag₄ dal-[...] | The field ... |
| 3' | a-šag₄ x-[...] | The field |
| 4' | uri₂{[ki]} | of Ur |
| 5' | nibru{[ki]} | of Nippur |
| 6' | ⸢x⸣{[ki]} | of E-e-23 |
| 7' | adab{[ki]} | of Adab |
| 8' | lagaš{[ki]} | of Lagash |
| 9' | ⸢ŋir₂-su⸣{[ki]} | of Birsu |
| 10' | i₃-si-in{[ki]} | of Isin |
| 11' | ⸢nina⸣{[ki]} | of Nineveh |
| 12' | larsam(|UD.UNUG|){[ki]} | Larsam |
| 13' | ⸢unug⸣{[ki]} | of Uruk |
| 14' | ⸢kiš⸣{[ki]} | of Kiš |
| 15' | ⸢kiš-mah⸣{[ki]} | of Kišmaḫe |
| 16' | zimbir(|UD.KIB.NUN|){⸢ki⸣} | of Sippar, |
| 17' | zimbir(|UD.KIB.NUN|)edin{⸢ki⸣} | of Sippar, the steppe |
| 18' | ⸢BAD₃{ki⸣} | of the E-Babylon |
| 19' | ⸢BAD₃{ki⸣} | of the E-Babylon |
| 20' | ⸢BAD₃{ki⸣} | of the E-Babylon |
| 21' | IM{[ki]} | of the land |
| 22' | IM{[ki]} | of the land |
| 23' | ⸢IM⸣{[ki]} | of E-šarru |
| 24' | UD{[ki]} | of Ur |
| 25' | UD{[ki]} | of Ur |
| 26' | UD{[ki]} | of Ur |
| 27' | ⸢x⸣-[...] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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)
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