K 11951 (P399537)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 11951 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399537 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By nn · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| a [0:1] a 1'a 1'–a 1'a 1' | And . . . [. . .] |
| a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2' | From the lady of heaven [. . .] |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | My (personal) god, who created me [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4' | (My personal) goddess, who created [me . . .] |
| a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5' | I entered in lamenat[ion . . .] |
| a [5:6] a 6'6'–a 6'6' | I went out into the street [and . . .] |
| a [6:7] a 7'7'–a 7'7' | I arise in woe [. . .] |
| a [7:8] a 8'8'–a 8'8' | [(My) food] is not swee[t . . .] |
| a [8:9] a 9'9'–a 9'9' | On (my) bed at nig[ht . . .] |
| a [9:10] a 10'10'–a 10'10' | I continuously moan[ed . . .] |
| a [10:11] a 11'11'–a 11'11' | With [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| a | ||
| 1' | ⸢u₃ x x x x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | iš-tu be-let ⸢AN⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | DINGIR-MU ba-ni-⸢ia⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | {d}iš₈-tar₂ ba-ni-⸢ti⸣-[ia ...] | |
| 5' | e-ru-ub ni-is-⸢sa⸣-[tu₄ ...] | |
| 6' | ana su-qi₂ u₂-ṣi-⸢am⸣-[ma ...] | |
| 7' | et-bi uʾ₃-i [...] | |
| 8' | la ṭa-ba-[am-ma ak-lum ...] | |
| 9' | ina ma-a-a-al ⸢mu⸣-[ši ...] | |
| 10' | ad-⸢da-nam⸣-[ma-am ...] | |
| 11' | ⸢ina⸣ [...] | |
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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