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Meier Maqlu 07 K 12834 (P400087)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Meier Maqlu 07 K 12834 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400087 |
| 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 |
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 iii | ||
| 1' | [uʾ₃]-⸢a a-a⸣ [...] | “Ay! Ay! ..., |
| 2' | [gi]-⸢lit-tum⸣ [...] | The reed screen |
| 3' | ⸢ar₂⸣-rat DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | (Sum) The scepter of the gods ... (Akk) The aršûtu-priestess, the god of ... |
| 4' | ⸢ni⸣-iš DINGIR [...] | The enīš-priestess of the god |
| 5' | lum-nu kiš-pi ⸢ru⸣-[ḫe-e ...] ; lem-nu-⸢ti⸣ [...] | Evil, witchcraft, evil ... |
| 6' | it-ti A.MEŠ ⸢ša₂⸣ [...] | With the water of the ešā-house |
| 7' | liš-ša₂-ḫi-iṭ-⸢ma⸣ [...] | May he tear out ... |
| 8' | NU NIG₂.⸢SAG⸣.[IL₂-e ...] | (If) he does not pay attention to the esaggil ritual |
| 9' | ⸢SILA⸣ [...] | The esala demon |
| o iv | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢u₂-qa⸣-[a]-⸢ka be-li₂⸣ {d}⸢UTU⸣ | ... your ..., O lord, Šamaš |
| 2' | [... 7.KAM].⸢ME⸣ ma-aq-lu-u₂ | 7th eponym year of Maqlû. |
Sources & licences
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- 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)
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