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BWL pl. 65 Sm 0061 (P404892)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BWL pl. 65 Sm 0061 |
|---|---|
| ID | P404892 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] [ma]-⸢am-ma⸣-an a-a ⸢i⸣-x-[...] | ... may ... not ... |
| 2' | [...] ⸢ŋidru⸣-[...] a-na ŠA₃ ha-aṭ-ṭi | ... to the hand of Ḫatti |
| 3' | [...]-si-[...] šam-nu ša-pi-ik-ma | ... is made perfect and |
| 4' | [lu₂ na]-⸢me⸣ nu-⸢un-zu⸣ ma-am-man ul i-di | No one can escape, no one knows. |
| 5' | [šum₂]-⸢ma⸣-ab lugal-la-ke₄ na-da-nu ša₂ LUGAL | The king's messenger, the gift of the king |
| 6' | [dug₃]-⸢ga⸣ |ŠU.SILA₃.GABA|ke₄ ṭu₂-ub-bu ša₂ ša₂-qi₂-i | a cup of olives, a libation bowl of wine |
| 7' | ⸢šum₂⸣-ma-ab ⸢lugal⸣-la-ke₄ | The šum-ēma-b priest of the king |
| 8' | sag₉-ga ⸢agrig⸣-a-ke₄ dum-mu-qu ša₂ a-ba-rak-ku | The good one of the scepter, the child of Abarakku |
| 9' | nam-gu₅-li niŋ₂ ud diš-kam₂ ib-ru-tu₄ ša₂ u₄-ma-ak-⸢kal⸣ | The oxherdhood was established on the day of the new moon. |
| 10' | nam-gi₄-me-a-aš ki-na-tu-tu | True remission |
| 11' | niŋ₂ ud da-ri₂-kam₂ ša₂ da-ra-a-⸢ti⸣ | forever, in perpetuity |
| 12' | du₁₄-da ṣa-al-tu | slander |
| 13' | ki nam-gi₄-me-a-aš-ke₄ a-šar ki-na-tu-⸢ti⸣ | As for the place of my rejoicing, the lord of truth |
| 14' | eme sig gu₇-gu₇ kar-ṣi a-ka-⸢li⸣ | The tongue that eats the lowland, its quay is Akali-eli. |
| 15' | ki nam-luh-še₃ i₃-ŋal₂ a-šar pa-ši-šu-ti ib-ba₂-aš-ši | He carries off to the place of healing, he makes his lips tremble |
| 16' | gir₅ iri kur₂-ra am₃ u-bar-ru ina IRI ša₂-nim-ma | The herdsman of a foreign city is setting out, in that city |
| 17' | saŋ-ŋa₂-am₃ re-e-šu₂ | It is a regular offering |
| 18' | {na₄}kinkin nu-un-uru₃ me-en | I am the one who does not build a city with stone. |
| 19' | nam-dub-sar-ra ama gu₂ de₂-ke₄-e-ne a-a um-me-a-ke₄-eš | The scribal art is the mother of the birds, the father of the umma birds |
| 20' | KUR {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN ŠU₂ MAN {kur}AN.ŠAR₂{⸢ki⸣} | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, King of Assyria. |
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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