BMS 26 (P398750)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 26 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398750 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By King, Leonard W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [. . . may (it) be ca]rried off. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | It is [the wording of] a lifted-[hand] prayer to Sin. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [. . .] to Sin. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [. . .] . . . on a favorable day, you sweep the roof. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [. . .] you mix with flour and |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [. . . you set] up and |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [... lit-tab]-⸢bil⸣ | |
| 3' | [KA-INIM-MA ŠU]-IL₂-LA₂ {d}ZUEN-NA-KAM | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢x⸣ ana {d}ZUEN | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢ši⸣ ina U₄ ŠE.GA UR₃ ta-ša₂-bit | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [...]-⸢x⸣-šal-tu₂ | |
| 2 | [...] ZI₃.DA HE.HE-ma | |
| 3 | [... GAR]{an}ma | |
| 4 | [...]-⸢x⸣-gal | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢x⸣-hur | |
| 6 | [...]-⸢ti₃⸣ | |
| 7 | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
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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