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K 13540 (P400357)
CANONICAL > Literature > Narrative; CANONICAL > Literature > Narrative > Enki and Ninmah, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 13540 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400357 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Narrative; CANONICAL > Literature > Narrative > Enki and Ninmah |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse 5 | ... |
| reverse 3 | they are gods |
| reverse 6 | ... you... |
| obverse 5' | he brought out from the womb |
| obverse 3' | May he appoint an extispicy for the sinnishtu-priestess... to my place. |
| obverse 2' | for the sake of the marriage |
| obverse 6' | In the rest of the apotropaic rituals, may the moon tremble. |
| reverse 1 | of the god Enki |
| obverse 7' | may he bring it out from there. |
| obverse 1' | may he raise a female slave. |
| reverse 2 | ... Ea |
| obverse 4' | After he had made the woman dwell in good health, by male and female, |
| reverse 4 | ... he built. |
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
- 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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