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K 16668 (P402140)

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

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Designation	K 16668
ID	P402140
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

English translation

By nn · 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'	[. . . I will sing] your [praises].
a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2'	[. . .] lifted-[hand prayer] to [. . .]
a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3'	[. . .] goddess of go[ddesses]
a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4'	[. . .] king of the world, king of [. . .]

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'	[... da₃-li₂-li₂]-⸢ki⸣ [lud-lul]
2'	[... ŠU]-⸢IL₂⸣-LA₂ {d}[...]
3'	[...]-⸢ti⸣ i-lat i-[la-a-ti]
4'	[...] ⸢LUGAL ŠU₂ LUGAL⸣ [...]

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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