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LKU 036 (P414178)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian, Uruk · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | LKU 036 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414178 |
| Museum no. | VAT 14509 |
| 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)
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 | [... ru-se]-e lil-su-u₂ e-li-šu₂ | ... may a rūsu prayer be uttered to him |
| 2 | [... ba]-la₂-ṭi li-i-ṣi ma-mitu ana EDIN | May ... life be prolonged! May a curse be directed to the open country! |
| 3 | [...] ⸢li⸣-iz-zi-ib-šu-ma | ... his elī-izzib priestess |
| 4 | [x-x-x-(x) a-me-lu] lib-luṭ a-me-lu | May the man live, the man |
| 5 | [... ma]-⸢ḫar⸣-ka ana da-riš | ... your greatness for eternity |
| 6 | [... da]-ki-šu₂ ip-šur {d}ŠU₂ | ... he made his knees bow down, Šuzu |
| 7 | [šiptu ul iu-ut]-tu-un ši-pat {d}IDIM | The incantation has not been performed, (it is) the omen of Ea |
| 8 | [ši-pat {d}nin-urta] u {d}gu-la | the offspring of Ninurta and Gula |
| 9 | [ši-pat {d}ka-ḫe₂-gal₂ ši-pat {d]}⸢igi⸣-ḫe₂-gal₂ ši-pat {d}nin-girima₃ | The curse of Kaḫbegal, the curse of Eigî-eḥegal and the curse (of) Ningirima. |
| 10 | [šunu iqbû-ma ana]-⸢ku⸣ ad-di te EN₂ | He spoke, and I went down to the horizon. How to recite the incantation |
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)
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