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BL 150 (P414132)
Ritual and liturgical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 150 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414132 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | ⸢me-e⸣ {d}am-an-ki-ra a-[ra-zu ga-an-na-ab-dug₄] | I want to utter an arazu prayer to Enki |
| a-na-ku ana {d}e₂-a [tes₂-li-ti lu-uq-bi]-⸢šu₂⸣ | May I speak my prayer to Ea | |
| 2 | umun am uru₂-ze₂-eb-ba{ki} [...] | Lord, wild bull of Eridu |
| 3 | umun e₂-u₆-nir [...] | Lord of the Eunir temple |
| 4 | umun eš₃-mah me-⸢e⸣ [...] | Lord of the Ešmah temple, the Me-e-e temple |
| 5 | umun kuara₂{ki} ⸢me-e⸣ [...] | Lord of Kuara, you are the emeš temple |
| 6 | umun e₂-muštug₂-mah-šu-du₇ me-e [...] | Lord of the Emushtugmahšudu temple, I am |
| 7 | umun e₂-abzu-ta me-⸢e⸣ [...] | From the lord of the Eabzu, I want to enter |
| 8 | umun e₂-⸢kar-za-gin₃⸣-na me-⸢e⸣ [...] | Lord of the Ekarzagina temple, where is he going? |
| 9 | umun ⸢e₂-x-x-x-x⸣ me-⸢e⸣ [...] | Lord ..., I want to ... |
| 10 | ad gi₄-gi₄ ad-da-bi-e-ne me-e [...] | I am the counsellor of their counsellors |
| ana ma-lik ab-be₂-e-šu ⸢tes₂⸣-[...] | To the one who follows his father | |
| 11 | ⸢ša₃⸣-la₂-su₃ gur-ra-ab me-e [...] | Return the eša-elasu-plant, I |
| ana reme₂-ni-i ta-a-a-ri ⸢tes₂-li⸣-[ti ...] | (Sum) For the merciful one, the one who blesses the etēlītu-priestess (Akk) For Merciful One, the hero | |
| 12 | ⸢šag₄⸣ ib₂-ba-bi niŋ₂-nam nu-ru-gu₂ me-e [...] | The šaĝ-priestess whose roar is terrifying, I am |
| ana ša₂ ug-gat lib₃-bi-šu mam-ma la i-⸢mah-ha⸣-[ru ...] | To the one whose heart is troubled, no one should approach ... | |
| 13 | uru₂ sumur-ra hu-luh-ha-a-ni [...] | The city that has been destroyed by a flood ... |
| ana ša₂ uz-za-šu₂ a-bu-bu gal-⸢tu₄⸣ [...] | To the one who is enraged, the great flood | |
| 14 | a-ra-zu ga-an-na-ab-dug₄ [...] | I want to utter an arazu prayer to him |
| ⸢tes₂-li⸣-ti lu-uq-bi-šu [...] | Let me speak to him my prayer(?) | |
| 15 | a-⸢ra-zu⸣ ga-an-na-ab-dug₄ [...] | I want to utter an arazu prayer to him |
| tes₂-li-ti lu-uq-bi-šu₂ [...] | Let me speak a prayer to him | |
| 16 | ⸢ša₃⸣-ab gig-ga-ŋu₁₀ kuš₂-u₃ [...] | The eša’eab temple, the sick one, the tired one |
| [x] ⸢ŠA₃-ia⸣ šum-ru-ṣa ta-ne₂-eh-[šu₂ ...] | “My lord, the šumrû-priestess, his fearsomeness | |
| 17 | [...] ⸢x⸣-ŋu₁₀ er₂-ra [...] | ... in tears |
| [...]-⸢ia⸣ šu-ud-mu-⸢um⸣ [...] | ... Šudmum’e | |
| 18 | [...]-⸢ra⸣ mu x [...] | ... ... year ... |
| 19 | [...] ⸢TA MA⸣ x [...] | ... from the boat ... |
| 20 | [...] x nu-un-x [...] | ... did not |
| 21 | [...] x [...] | |
| 22 | [...] nu-⸢un⸣-[...] | ... does not emerge |
| 23 | [...] x [...] | |
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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