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K 17656 (P402968)
CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 17656 |
|---|---|
| ID | P402968 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 7 | ...... |
| obverse 1' | You set up... |
| reverse 8 | ... hand(?) |
| obverse 5' | ... wisdom |
| obverse 4' | .... is favourable. |
| reverse 3 | ... all the... plants(?) |
| reverse 2 | ...... |
| reverse 5 | ... he dedicated it (this statuette). |
| reverse 6 | ... water |
| obverse 3' | .... you recite... |
| obverse 8' | ... of the enemy, who destroys |
| reverse 4 | ... will not change. |
| obverse 7' | ... plant of red wool |
| obverse 2' | ... you speak... |
| obverse 9' | ... the great(?) |
| reverse 1 | ... water of heaven |
| obverse 6' | ...-ula |
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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