K 19740 (P404524)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 19740 |
|---|---|
| ID | P404524 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 7 | She is a hero, she is a hero, she is a hero |
| obverse 5' | A distant lady, who is afraid of me,... |
| obverse 1 | For the wide-spread queen, the attentive one of the heart |
| reverse 8 | he did not establish a verdict in the tablet(?)... |
| obverse 3 | Delivered... to..., the guarantor of the warriors. |
| obverse 6 | Delivered... to..., the guarantor of the warriors. |
| obverse 8' | Be satisfied, O lord, your hands! |
| obverse 5 | Who guards the... of the Apsu, who establishes the sanctuaries |
| obverse 9 | ... the south wind... for the preservation of life |
| reverse 1 | His... is unceasing, he is a liar, he is a liar... |
| obverse 4' | ... and his face... |
| obverse 3' | ...................................... |
| obverse 2' | ... who enters... |
| obverse 7 | ama,..., Sin, who dwells |
| reverse 3 | and after he has sinned,... |
| obverse 7' | (and) he is frightened like a garden in the face of a mountain. |
| reverse 9 | ... the father of his son...... |
| obverse 8 | Marduk, the lord of the..., in his sacrificial supplication, |
| reverse 6 | and the rest of the people of my city have not yet brought them to an end. |
| reverse 4 | he defeated, and the people of my house had seized... |
| obverse 2 | Who guards the... of the Apsu, who establishes the sanctuaries |
| obverse 9' | O lord, whose enragedness is a sea, |
| reverse 2 | The lord who to his father... |
| obverse 6' | They swore against him, and he swore his name in a slander.... |
| obverse 1' | ... in |
| obverse 10 | The one who...s the namri priestess, the one who...s the riqaqu priestess |
| reverse 5 | of my city like a flood of the enemy... |
| obverse 4 | To Nabû, the wide-spread hero, the eyewitness of heaven |
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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