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K 16156 (P401797)
lexical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 16156 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401797 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | lexical |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢x⸣ ŠU{[u]} [...] | ... hand |
| 2' | {[ŋeš}sur₉] ⸢gal⸣ ŠU{⸢lum⸣} [...] | The šû-disease of the Great Oval, Hand of the King |
| 3' | {[ŋeš}tun₃]-gal ŠU{lum} [...] | Hand of a Young Man |
| 4' | {[ŋeš]}urzababitumₓ(|AN.SAL.TUG₂.IB|) {<ŠU(urzababītu)>} [...] | Urzababitu |
| 5' | {[ŋeš]}⸢dim⸣-nun tin-[du-u] [...] | The ešdim-nun priestess, the tindu-priest |
| 6' | {[ŋeš]}⸢sa⸣-eš₅ BAD-⸢x⸣-[...] [...] | “It is enough, it is enough! It is sufficient! Its ... are not suitable for you |
| 7' | {[ŋeš]}⸢gal⸣ ušu₃-am₃ i-nu ⸢rab⸣-[ba-ti] [...] | “It is the Great Oval, when I enter it, |
| 8' | {[ŋeš}gu₃-di] ⸢ša₃⸣-u₁₉-ša₄ {<MIN(i-nu)>} [...] [...] | The throne-dais, the eša-e-ušaga temple |
| 9' | {[ŋeš}gu₃-di ša₃]-⸢u₁₉⸣-ša₄ gu₂ ŋar-⸢ra⸣ [...] [...] | The throne-bearer, the ša’esha priest, the neck of the bara'esh priest |
| 10' | [...]-⸢x⸣ ⸢sa⸣-[...] [...] | ... esa’e |
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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