BMS 23 (P400203)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 23 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400203 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2' | [. . .] may he present/bring [. . .] |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | [. . .] receive [my] pray[er] |
| a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5' | [. . .] I may pro[claim] your [great]ness. |
| a [5:6] a 6'6'–a 6'6' | [It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer] to Sin. |
| a [6:7] a 7'7'–a 7'7' | [. . .] lift[ed-hand prayer . . .] |
| a [7:8] a 8'8'–a 8'8' | [. . . in front of] Sin [. . .] |
| a [8:9] a 9'9'–a 9'9' | [. . .]s you set [up and] |
| a [10:11] a 11'11'–a 11'11' | [. . .] three times [. . .] |
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' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] li-še-rib ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢le⸣-qi₂ un-ni-[ni-ia] | |
| 4' | [...]-da-ar-ti-[x] | |
| 5' | [... nar]-bi-ka ⸢lu⸣-[ša₂-pi] | |
| 6' | [KA-INIM-MA ŠU-IL₂-LA₂ {d]}⸢ZUEN⸣-NA-[KAM] | |
| 7' | [... ŠU]-IL₂-[LA₂ ...] | |
| 8' | [... IGI {d]}3(u) [...] | |
| 9' | [...]-MEŠ GAR{[an}ma] | |
| 10' | [...] ZA [...] | |
| 11' | [...] 3(diš)-šu₂⸣ [...] | |
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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