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K 15173 (P401213)
CANONICAL > Literature; CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Debate poems; CANONICAL > Literature > Narrative, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15173 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401213 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature; CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Debate poems; CANONICAL > Literature > Narrative |
| 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 2' | ... Ningu |
| obverse 10' | ..... and ditto... |
| obverse 1' | ... in the street(?) |
| reverse 4' | ... the third day... |
| reverse 3' | ... you take... to your strength... |
| obverse 5' | ...... and you |
| obverse 4' | ... sat down(?) |
| reverse 2' | ... may he diminish... |
| obverse 6' | ... may...... |
| obverse 3' | ... to the incantation... |
| reverse 5' | ... your praise |
| obverse 8' | ... a reed mat? |
| obverse 9' | ... whatever ditto |
| obverse 7' | ............... |
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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