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K 15988 (P401725)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15988 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401725 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL |
| 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 5 | ... the man(?) |
| obverse 10 | ...... |
| reverse 5' | shall write his name with my name. |
| reverse 4' | Whoever breaks the contract or |
| reverse 7' | may his name (and) his seed disappear from the netherworld. |
| reverse 6' | may Aur and Ninlil overthrow him fiercely. |
| reverse 2' | ... beer of... |
| reverse 3' | I established in my palace a scepter of wisdom that cannot be changed. |
| obverse 7 | ...-sagdu... |
| obverse 4 | ...... |
| obverse 3 | ...... |
| obverse 8 | ...... |
| obverse 6 | ... rejoicing(?) |
| obverse 1 | ...... |
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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