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BMS 44 (P400689)

Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation	BMS 44
ID	P400689
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 [0:1] a 1'a 1'–a 1'a 1'	for [. . .] . . .[. . .]
a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2'	[It is] the wor[ding of a lifted-hand pray[er . . .]
a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4'	[. . .] . . garments(?) . [. . . ]

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'	[...] ⸢DINGIR x x⸣ [...]
2'	[KA]-⸢INIM⸣-MA ŠU-⸢IL₂⸣-[LA₂ ...-KAM]
3'	[x]-⸢x⸣-tu an-na-[...]
4'	[x x] ⸢x⸣ TUG₂-MEŠ ⸢x⸣ [...]
5'	[x x x] ⸢x⸣ NU [...]
6'	[...] ⸢x x⸣ [...]

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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