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BWL pl. 38 K 10523 (P398733)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BWL pl. 38 K 10523 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398733 |
| 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 |
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 22' | Let me bring... |
| obverse 20' | and who I have set, Murpidu, his singers, |
| obverse 21' | This is what my lord wrote me: |
| obverse 9' | This is what my lord wrote me: |
| reverse 2' | He went up to the treasury halls. |
| obverse 19' | of the auru, the muttaidu-demon, in... |
| obverse 18' | The one who screams at a dog: his fate. |
| obverse 8' | a burrû-vessel, a kalû-vessel, a shatû-vessel, a tû-vessel, goes to a man. |
| obverse 10' | Written and collated, and checked with the chariot, and to the open country |
| obverse 7' | Do not forget my lord! Do not forget me! |
| obverse 23' | Ri... |
| obverse 15' | I am a lion, but I am not a lion. |
| obverse 4' | The barley rations of his god... |
| obverse 5' | He goes with the hands of the miatu-demon. ama |
| obverse 17' | the one who has sinned against him, who has caused him to die. |
| obverse 12' | Whom a man has sinned against, whose limbs are full of limbs, |
| obverse 14' | I have sworn by the name of the king, my lord. |
| reverse 4' | O lord of evil, O lord of omens! |
| obverse 1' | This is what my lord wrote me. |
| reverse 1' | May my lord not do! |
| obverse 6' | I am a liar, but I have not yet sworn. |
| obverse 16' | Do not abandon me, my lord do not abandon me. |
| obverse 2' | Written and collated, and deposited the water in my hands. |
| obverse 11' | who restores the lord, who restores |
| obverse 3' | O lord, pious one, pious one, pious one, pious one, pious one, pious one, |
| obverse 13' | (If) he is a dog: he will kill the foes. |
| reverse 3' | I heard about the destruction of the cult centers and cult centers. |
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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