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Shurpu 4 G (P400573)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shurpu 4 G |
|---|---|
| ID | P400573 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 6 | to the wife of his adversary I shall go, the cattle |
| obverse 11 | May god and goddess be reconciled with one another. |
| obverse 12 | (As for) the angry (personal) god (and) the angry (personal) goddess, with a man, |
| obverse 9 | The 'hand' of the 'finger' is 'loose.' |
| obverse 3 | of the remainder of the asakku-offering, cattle |
| obverse 4 | (If) he is ill with his god: he will not die. |
| obverse 10 | Just as a word and not a supplication, cattle |
| obverse 7 | To the daughter of his (personal) god, you do not know. |
| obverse 2 | May the well-being of Marduk be restored. |
| obverse 5 | spleen, spleen, straw, |
| obverse 8 | pious omen, tazimtu-demon, cattle |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: To do obeisance and rejoicing |
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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