K 17478 (P402817)
CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 17478 |
|---|---|
| ID | P402817 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1' | [. . .] you |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [. . .] your [weighty com]mand, |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [. . .] the po[or], |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [. . . who]se god [has punished] him, |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [. . . you rele]ase the captu[red], |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [. . . is laid] out, you raise [up], |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [. . . is conf]ined, you show [the light], |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [. . . I set] up for you a [pure] ritual assemb[lage]. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [. . .] at [your] fe[et]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢at-ta⸣ | |
| 2' | [... zi]-⸢kir⸣-ka [DUGUD] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢en⸣-[ši] | |
| 4' | [... ša₂ i-nu-nu]-⸢šu⸣ DINGIR-[šu₂] | |
| 5' | [... tu-ma-aš]-⸢šar⸣ ṣab-[tu₂] | |
| 6' | [... ŠUB]-u₂ tu-⸢šat⸣-[ba] | |
| 7' | [... us-su]-ru tu-kal-⸢lam⸣ [ZALAG₂] | |
| 8' | [... ar]-kus-ka ⸢rik⸣-[sa KU₃] | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢ina šap⸣-[li-ka] | |
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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