BID pl. 6 (P400230)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila; CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BID pl. 6 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400230 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila; CANONICAL > Magic |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
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| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Incantation: O Ishtar, lady of the heave[ns (and) the earth], |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | May the heavens and the Apsu rejoi[ce on your account]. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [May] Anu, Enlil, and Ea [greet] your grea[t] divinity. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [May] the gods, who dwell in E[kur and] the Apsu [make your] heart [glad]. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [You are] the celestial luminary [. . .] . [. . .] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [. . .], the holy [. . .] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | I wr[ote . . . ] on tablets. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [. . .] for my reading [. . .] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | The one who trusts in you [. . .] not [. . .] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | Whoever carries [. . .] or [. . ] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [. . .] Ishtar, the lady of [. . .] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [. . .] his name (and) [his] seed [. . .] |
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 | EN₂ {d}iš₈-tar₂ be-let ⸢AN⸣{[e} (u) KI{ti₃]} | |
| 2 | AN{u₂} u ⸢ABZU li-ri⸣-[šu-nik-ki] | |
| 3 | {d}a-⸢num {d⸣}BE u {d}DIŠ [ana] ⸢DINGIR⸣{ti}ki ⸢GAL⸣-[ti lik-ru-bu] | |
| 4 | DINGIR-MEŠ a-⸢šib E₂⸣.[KUR u] ⸢ABZU⸣ ŠA₃-[ki li-ṭib-bu] | |
| 5 | {d}⸢nanna⸣-[ra-ti ...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 6 | ⸢el-la⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ina⸣ DUB-MEŠ-ni ⸢aš₂⸣-[ṭur ...] | |
| 2' | a-na ta-mar-⸢ti⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | NIR.GAL₂-ZU ⸢NU⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | man-nu ša TUM₃ ⸢u₃⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | {d}1(u) 5(diš) be-⸢let⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | MU-šu₂ ⸢NUMUN⸣-[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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