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AfO 21, 076 K 13354 (P400249)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AfO 21, 076 K 13354 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400249 |
| 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' | [...] ⸢A⸣.[MEŠ ...] | ... the ešātu-priests |
| 2' | ⸢ana⸣-ku ⸢e-te⸣-[lil ...] | “Ana-eku, Ete-ilil, ..., |
| 3' | u₃ {d}gira₂ [(...) DI.KU₅.(MEŠ) TU₆ EN₂] | and Gira, the judge. Incantation formula. |
| 4' | EN₂ at-tu-nu ⸢A⸣.[MEŠ ša₂ DU.DU-ka kal KUR.KUR] | Incantation: “You are the ēšu-priests, who carry you off to all the lands. |
| 5' | ⸢ta⸣-at-ta-nab-lak-⸢ka⸣-[ta kal KUR.MEŠ-ni] | all the lands from east to west |
| 6' | tu-ḫap-⸢pa⸣-a ka-⸢ra⸣-[ni tu-šab-bi-ra {giš}MA₂] | You recite the incantation “The boat |
| 7' | A.MEŠ ⸢ID₂⸣ [...] {⸢id₂⸣}BURANUN{ki} | water of the Euphrates |
| 8' | ⸢A.MEŠ a⸣-[ab-ba ta-ma]-⸢ti⸣ [...] | “As for the water, you will see the water |
| o iv | ||
| 1' | [... UGU-ku]-⸢nu lim-qut⸣ | May ... fall upon you. |
| 2' | [...] ⸢TU₆⸣ EN₂ | Incantation formula. |
| 3' | [... re-e]-⸢qa⸣ | ... the shepherd |
Sources & licences
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