BMS 43 (P400250)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 43 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400250 |
| 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 Shazu rejoice over you, [. . .] |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | [. . . the god]s [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4' | [. . .] the great gods [. . .] |
| a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5' | [. . .] the gods who dwell in E[sagila . . .] |
| a [5:6] a 6'6'–a 6'6' | [. . .] Anum, Enlil, (and) E[a . . .] |
| a [6:7] a 7'7'–a 7'7' | I, your servant [. . . your] great[ness, . . .] |
| a [7:8] a 8'8'–a 8'8' | [. . .] the wording of a [lifted]-hand prayer. |
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⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | {[d]}ŠA₃.ZU ⸢HUL₂⸣-[ki ...] | |
| 3' | [DINGIR]-MEŠ [...] | |
| 4' | ⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ ⸢GAL⸣-[MEŠ ...] | |
| 5' | DINGIR-MEŠ a-šib ⸢e₂⸣-[sag-il₂-la ...] | |
| 6' | {⸢d⸣}a-num {d}EN ⸢e₂⸣-[a ...] | |
| 7' | ⸢ana⸣-ku IR₃-ki ⸢nar⸣-[bi-ki ...] | |
| 8' | [KA]-⸢INIM⸣-MA ŠU-[IL₂-LA₂ ...] | |
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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