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BL 040 (P398703)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398703 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| 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' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢x⸣ A [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... descendant of ... ... |
| 4' | [...] na ⸢AN⸣ [...] ⸢x siškur₂⸣ | ... the eškur temple |
| 5' | [...] ga mu ra AN ga siškur₂ de₃-ra-ab-be₂ | May ... say a siskur prayer to you |
| 6' | [...] x ⸢AMA⸣ MI KA mu LU ra AN ga <(siškur₂ de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | ... ... may he/she say to you "... |
| 7' | ⸢dim₃⸣-me-er-ŋu₁₀ a-ra-zu {{ A }} de₃-ra-ab-be₂-ne | May they utter an arazu prayer to you |
| 8' | [...]-⸢x⸣-ŋu₁₀ mu-lu siškur₂-ra-ke₄ siškur₂ de₃-ra-ab-be₂ | May ..., the one of the siskur prayer, utter an arazu prayer to you |
| 9' | [...] a-ra-<zu>-ke₄ a-<(ra-zu de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | ... of arazu prayer, may he pray to you |
| r | ||
| 1 | [... mu-lu-hur]-⸢saŋ⸣-ŋa₂-ke₄ ⸢siškur₂⸣ <(de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | May he/she say to you "... Muluḫur-sa'eba, esiškur temple" |
| 2 | {[d}gu₂-bar-ra gašan-gu₂-edin-na-ke₄] a-<(ra-zu de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | May he pray to you, Gubara of the vangu’edena |
| 3 | [...] ⸢siškur₂⸣ <(de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | ... may he/she say to you "... a supplication" |
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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