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LKU 027 (P414169)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian, Uruk · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | LKU 027 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414169 |
| Museum no. | VAT 14502 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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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' | [x-(x)] ⸢ka⸣ x [...] | ... of the temple |
| 2' | [x]-x UŠ.UŠ-nu x [...] | ... the length |
| 3' | [lu] ⸢A⸣.LA₂ ḪUL lu ⸢DINGIR ḪUL⸣ [lu x-(x) ḪUL] | or ēšālu-disease, or ‘house-of-a-god’, or |
| 4' | [lu] ⸢DU₃⸣-ši kiš-pi ru-ḫu-u₂ ⸢ru⸣-[su-u₂ (x-x)] | or an ešû-demon, witchcraft, spittle, ..., |
| 5' | [i]-⸢lu⸣-ut-ka ra-bi-ti [īde anāku lā īde] | Your great divinity knows, she does not know |
| 6' | [NENNI] A NENNI IR₃-ka lib-luṭ liš-⸢li⸣-[im-ma] | NENI, son of so-and-so, may your life be long! May it be praised! |
| 7' | ⸢nar⸣-bi-ka li-ša₂-pi EN u₄-um [bal-ṭu] | May your greatness be exalted, O lord, day and night |
| 8' | ⸢u₃⸣ ana-ku a-ši-pi IR₃-ka da₃-⸢li₂⸣-[li₂-ka lud-lul] | I, the captive, your servant, may I sing your praises. |
| 9' | ⸢KA⸣.INIM.MA ŠU.IL₂.LA₂ {[d}x.(x).KAM] | Incantation formula: hand-lifting prayer to . |
| 10' | ⸢KID₃⸣.KID₃.BI ina E₂ par₂-si KI SAR ⸢A⸣ [KU₃ SU₃ ...] | Its ritual: In a parsu-house, you sweep the ground; you sprinkle pure water . |
| 11' | [ina] UGU GIŠ.ḪI.A ḫu-pe-e ŠIM.ḪI.A [te-ṣe-en (...)] | You apply ḫubû-plant (and) gypsum |
| 12' | [GI].⸢IZI⸣.LA₂ GI DU₁₀.GA ina IZI ⸢PIŠ₁₀⸣.{[d}ID₂ ta-qad-ma] | You strew sweet reed at the fire of epišu-wood. |
| 13' | [ZI₃.MA].⸢AD⸣.GA₂ ta-sar₂-raq ana [IGI ...] | You strew emmer flour in front of ... |
| 14' | [x-x NINDA].I₃.DE₂.A [LAL₂ I₃.NUN.NA GAR-an] | You set out ... of idû-bread, honey and butter. |
| 15' | [x-x-x (x)] ⸢li⸣ [...] | ... elī ... |
| 16' | [x-x-x (x-x)] x [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [ta-ad-da-na-bu]-⸢bi a-ma⸣-[tu₂ ...] | Its utterance is a word |
| 2' | [ta-as-ḫu-ri-in]-⸢ni⸣ [...] | You have strewn ... upon me |
| 3' | [ta-at-tal]-⸢ki⸣-ma [...] | Tattal-ema and ... |
| 4' | [ta]-⸢ad-gu⸣-li-in-ni-ma [x-x-x-x-(x)] | You have ...ed me and |
| 5' | [a]-⸢na⸣-ku ina qi₂-bit AN.ZIB₂ {⸢d⸣}15 ...] | I, at the command of the eclipse of the goddess Ištar |
| 6' | ⸢na⸣-ak-me₂-eš a-na ub-bu-⸢ri⸣-[ki ...] | When you go up to your abode |
| 7' | [a]-⸢na⸣ la šu(is-)li-i ša₂ šu-me-⸢ia⸣ [x-x-x-x (x-x-x)] | “It is not my fault that Šumēya ... |
| 8' | ⸢ap⸣-pa-šiš ḫa-šu-ut-tu₂ ⸢aṣ-ṣa⸣-[bat ...] | “(If) he slips through the cracks of the door, |
| 9' | [ina qi₂]-⸢bit {d⸣}15 {d}na-na-a {d}⸢ka⸣-[ni-sur-ra ...] | By the command of E-Ištar, Nanaya, E-ka-e-nisura |
| 10' | [KA.INIM].⸢MA⸣ UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.RU.⸢DA⸣.[KAM] | Incantation formula: to undo witchcraft. |
| 11' | [... {u₂}IGI]-⸢lim⸣ {<u₂}IGI-NIŠ> {u₂}tar-muš {⸢u₂⸣}[ḫa-šu-ut-tu₂] | ēlim-plant, imhur-ešra-plant (and) tarmuš-plant |
| 12' | [... ina] IGI {d}15 GAR-⸢an⸣ [x-x-x-x-x] | ... in front of Ištar ... |
| 13' | [x-x-x-x-x] ⸢en⸣ ra [...] | ... the en priestess |
| 14' | [x-x-x-x-x-x] x-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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