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BL 017 (P414098)
Ritual and liturgical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 017 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414098 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Ritual and liturgical |
| 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 3' | exalted lady |
| reverse 5' | The third tablet of Eremma. |
| reverse 9' | (Property of) the great lord, his lord: Ashurbanipal, prince. |
| reverse 17' | who is attentive to the heart of the great gods, |
| reverse 15' | In the presence of his supplications, he is not his supplication, |
| reverse 19' | I wrote, collated, and collated it in tablets. |
| reverse 21' | On account of this, Nabû, king of the totality of heaven and earth, |
| reverse 1' | ... lady |
| reverse 6' | To Nabû, the perfect heir, the overseer of all heaven and earth |
| reverse 7' | He who grasps the base of the threshing floor (and) the tablet of the fates |
| obverse 3 | .... |
| obverse 1 | (If) he is a widow, he is a widow, he is a widow, he is a widow. |
| reverse 16' | O holy Ea, the great divinity, my lord, |
| obverse 7 | brickwork of a temple |
| reverse 2' | ... lady |
| reverse 12' | Sîn-ahhe-eriba, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 14' | The foundation of the throne of his kingship, the oath of his lips |
| obverse 2 | ... the way of the alakku-demon is favourable... |
| reverse 23' | daily in the takribtu-offering |
| reverse 24' | May I be sated with his life! |
| obverse 8 | ...... |
| reverse 18' | When the mouths of the tablet(s), a copy of Assyria and the land of Akkad |
| reverse 10' | shepherd who provides for the sanctuaries of the great gods, |
| reverse 8' | Who restores the days, who restores the dead, who establishes the light, |
| reverse 4' | erema priestess of the god |
| obverse 5 | a scepter |
| reverse 13' | For his life, the life of his days, the well-being of his seed, |
| reverse 22' | (Property) of Ashurbanipal, his shepherd, who reveres your divinity |
| reverse 20' | On the bank of the Ezida, the temple of Nabû that is inside Nineveh, my lord, I established. |
| obverse 6 | Exalted... |
| obverse 4 | ... the way of the alakku-demon is favourable... |
| reverse 11' | son of Esarhaddon, 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
- 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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