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LKA 055 (P413967)

Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationLKA 055
IDP413967
Museum no.VAT 13688
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLiterary
Find spotAssur (mod. Qalat Sherqat)
Coordinates35.4557, 43.2611

English translation

By Ebeling, Erich · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
a [0:1] a 1'a 1'–a 1'a 1'[. . .] ditto
a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2'[. . .] does not return [up]stream,
a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3'(So) [re]move, carry (this illness) [. . .],
a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4'[. . .] as long as I live.
a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5'[. . .] let me sing your [praises],
a [5:6] a 6'6'–a 6'6'Your [servant], let me (also) sing your [pr]aises!
a [6:7] a 7'7'–a 7'7'It is [the wording] of a lifted-[hand] prayer to Sin.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
a
1'[...] KI.⸢MIN⸣
2'[... ma]-⸢hir⸣-te NU GUR{⸢ru⸣}
3'[... u₂]-⸢suh⸣ ta-⸢bal⸣
4'[...] a-di U₄{um} TI.⸢LA⸣
5'[... KA.TAR-MEŠ]-ka lud-lul
6'[IR₃]-ka KA.TAR-MEŠ-ka(MA) lud-⸢lul⸣
7'[KA-INIM-MA ŠU]-⸢IL₂⸣-LA₂ {d}3(u)-KAM
8'[...] ⸢x x⸣ U₂ [(x)]

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