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K 10203 + K 11590 (P398548)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 10203 + K 11590 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398548 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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)
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 | ||
| 1 | [DIŠ NA] ⸢UḪ₂⸣-su KA-šu₂ x-x-x [x-x-x NU].MEŠ-šu₂ šu-nu-lu | If a man’s mouth is full of ēru-plant |
| 2 | [DIŠ NA] UḪ₂-su ina ZAG-šu₂ x-x-x [x-x-x NU].MEŠ-šu₂ šu-nu-lu | If a man's saliva on his right side ... his flesh is full |
| 3 | [DIŠ] ⸢NA⸣ ina KI.NA₂-šu₂ ig-da-na-al-lu-⸢ut⸣ [ŠA₃]-šu₂ GAZ.MEŠ-šu₂ | If a ēšû-vessel keeps slipping away from his bed: his enemies will kill him. |
| 4 | [IGI.MEŠ]-⸢šu₂⸣ iṣ-ṣa-nun-du GIR₃{ii}šu₂ ⸢u₂⸣-zaq-qa₂-ta-šu₂ | His eyes are the Išba-nundu-demon, his feet are the E-zaqqa-ta. |
| 5 | [NA] ⸢BI⸣ NU.MEŠ-šu₂ ina KI.MAḪ UŠ₂ šu-nu-lu | (If) a man, his dead ones will be scattered in the grave. |
| 6 | [ina še]-⸢rim⸣ KI.GAR tu-⸢qad-daš⸣ IM KI.GAR TI-qe₂ | You recite the incantation over the ground. You take the clay from the ground (and) you daub (his eyes). |
| 7 | 2 ⸢ALAM⸣ DU₃-uš [ana NU] NITA ŠU.GUR ZABAR | You make 2 ēšalammu-houses. Hand of bronze to the man. |
| 8 | [TI-qe₂]-⸢ma⸣ ina ⸢MURU₂⸣-[šu (x-x)] ta-PA-di-IK | You take (it) and in his middle ... you sprinkle (it). |
| 9 | [x-x-(x) {giš]}⸢EREN⸣ [x-(x) ina] ⸢MURU₂⸣-ša₂ ta-PA-di-IK | You crush ēreš-wood in its middle. |
| 10 | [x-x-x-x] x-x [...] GUB-su-nu-⸢ti⸣ | ... stood them up. |
| 11 | [...] KAŠ.⸢SAG BAL⸣-[qi₂] | You libate first-rate beer |
| 12 | [...] 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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