BMS 34 (P399497)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 34 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399497 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| side a [1:2] side a 2'2'–side a 2'2' | [. . .] I have seen [your face] |
| side a [2:3] side a 3'3'–side a 3'3' | [. . . my dreams] are frightening to me. |
| side a [3:4] side a 4'4'–side a 4'4' | [. . .] let me sing your praises. |
| side a [4:5] side a 5'5'–side a 5'5' | It is [the wording of a lifted-hand pray]er to Gula. |
| side a [5:6] side a 6'6'–side a 6'6' | [Its ritual: You do (it) with either a ritual asssemblage] or censer. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| side a | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢u₂⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...]-⸢x a⸣-ta-⸢mar⸣ [pa-ni-ki] | |
| 3' | [... šu-na-a-tu-ia] par₂-da-a ⸢ia-ši⸣ | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢da₃⸣-li₂-li₂-ki lud-lul | |
| 5' | [KA-INIM-MA ŠU-IL₂]-⸢LA₂⸣ {d}ME-ME-<KAM> | |
| 6' | [DU₃-DU₃-BI lu ina KEŠDA] ⸢lu⸣ ina NIG₂.NA DU₃{uš} | |
| 7' | [...] ⸢x x x x x 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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