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K 10217 (P398555)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 10217 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398555 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 5' | or the dead or the dead... |
| obverse 2' | ... or with oil... |
| obverse 3' | ... and his hands |
| obverse 8' | ... before ama you set out. |
| reverse 3' | ... his |
| obverse 4' | and these sceptres should not approach his body |
| reverse 6' | ... the river |
| reverse 4' | ... of a... |
| obverse 9' | [...] you set up a censer of juniper. You libate first-rate beer. |
| obverse 10' | ... let me bring out the yoke, |
| obverse 7' | Its ritual: You pound (it) either in a wall or in the open country, (and) you sprinkle pure water. |
| obverse 6' | The dead and the dead are stricken with a tavern. |
| obverse 11' | ... the kilalê-demon |
| obverse 12' | ... 4 unfavorable omens. |
| obverse 1' | ... or water of his ritual assemblage, be it in front of the star... |
| reverse 2' | ...... |
| reverse 5' | ... the wall |
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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