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Herzberuhigungsklagen pl. 56 (P414369)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Herzberuhigungsklagen pl. 56 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414369 |
| Museum no. | BM 122647 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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 | [DU₃-DU₃]-⸢BI⸣ ER₂.ŠA₃.HUN.GA₂ ša₂ TUG₂.SIG₂ LUGAL MU-[...] | Its ritual: An eršahuŋa prayer for a king's hem |
| 2 | [...] 8(diš) NINDA-HI.A 3(DIŠ) {dug}GUR₉-MEŠ ša₂ KAŠ SAG 1/2(diš) x [...] ⸢NINDA⸣.I₃.DE₂.A | ... 8 loaves of bread, 3 kurru-vessels of first-class beer, 1/2 ... e22nindanu-eidea |
| 3 | 3(diš) SILA₃ {zi₃}MAD.GA₂ 3(DIŠ) ka-ma-nu 3(diš) UDU.NITA₂-MEŠ [...] ⸢x x⸣ | 3 qû of maddukku-flour, 3 kamanu-fish, 3 sheep |
| 4 | 3(diš) SILA₃ {zi₃}EŠA 3(DIŠ) ma-⸢na⸣ SIG₂ UD₅-MEŠ [...] ⸢x⸣ | 3 qû of ešu-flour, 3 (jars of) ma-e-na-e23, wool of goats, |
| 5 | {<⸢KIMIN⸣(...)>} GI.DU₈-MEŠ [...] | Ditto ... reed bundles |
| 6 | {<KIMIN(...)>} [...] x | Ditto ... ... |
| 7 | {<KIMIN(...)>} [...] | Ditto |
| 8 | [...] | |
| 9 | [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢diŋir-re-e-ne e₂-saŋ-il₂-la nam⸣-<(tag-ga-ni duh-a)> | The birrēnu priestesses of the Esabail temple, whose sexual arousal is sweet |
| 2' | nam-tag-ga-ni nam-tag-ga dugud-da nam-<(tag-ga-ni duh-a)> | His sin, the heavy sin, his ... sin |
| 3' | nam-tag-ga gu-la nam-tag-ga gig-ga nam-tag-ga-ni duh-⸢a⸣ | The great sin, the bitter sin, his sin is released. |
| 4' | [šag₄]-zu x u₃-tu-ud-da-gin₇ ki-bi-še₃ gi₄-gi₄ | Your field, like one born by ..., is restored to its place |
| 5' | [ama] ⸢u₃⸣-tu-ud-da a-a u₃-tu-ud-da-gin₇ ki-<(bi-še₃ gi₄-gi₄)> | Like a mother born by a birth father, may it be restored to its place for me |
| 6' | ⸢EN₂⸣ {d}NISABA šar-SAR-tum hu-un-na-li-li | Incantation: O Nisaba, king of Ḫunnalili |
| 7' | ⸢GIM⸣ SUMUN-šu₂ SAR-ma E₃ | Written and checked according to its original |
| 8' | ⸢ṭup⸣-pi {m}{d}MUATI-DUGUD-PAP-MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU A.BA E₂.GAL | Tablet of Nabû-kabit-ahhešu, the palace scribe. |
| 9' | ⸢ša⸣ {m}⸢LUGAL⸣-GI.NA šar₃ KUR aš-šur{ki} | The palace of Šarruken, 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
- 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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