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Herzberuhigungsklagen pl. 11-12 (P414370)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Herzberuhigungsklagen pl. 11-12 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414370 |
| Museum no. | BM 123377 |
| 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' | [...] | |
| [...] ⸢x TUM UŠ⸣ IGI ⸢x x⸣ [...] | ... ... first part of the night, before ... | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢x x-ba⸣ [...] | ... the ... temple |
| [...] ⸢x-tu⸣-šu₂ kab-⸢tu⸣ [...] | ... his ..., the chief ... | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢mu⸣-un-dirig-ga [...] | ... the one who has not been praised |
| [...]-⸢tu⸣-šu₂ šu-tu-ra [...] | ... in his own hand | |
| 4' | [... arhuš] tuku-am₃ KA sag₉-sag₉-ga ba-[...] | ... who has a heart, a beautiful mouth |
| [... re]-⸢mu⸣-ta ri-ši-šu-ma te-le-eq-⸢qe₂⸣ [...] | ... from the shepherd's womb you take away ... | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢x x im⸣-ma-⸢an-gaz⸣ šu gid₂-ba-[ni-ib₂] | ... he smote ..., he made him tremble |
| [... te]-he-pe ⸢ta⸣-ṣa-bat ⸢qat⸣-[...] | You break off the ... of the ēšabat-vessel, the qat eṣabat plant | |
| 6' | [...] ⸢x x gu₂ šub⸣-ba ki-bi ⸢silim⸣-[ma-ab] | ... in its ... place, the E-silim-e-mab |
| [...] ⸢x x šab⸣-su tu-sal-lam [it-ti-šu₂] | ... his ... you will fill with joy with him | |
| 7' | [...] ⸢x⸣ še-bi-da ⸢sil₇⸣-[...] | ... the e’e23-house, the šēbida-house |
| [...]-⸢AZ⸣ AH TU ⸢DA⸣-[...] | ...-eAZ-e23 | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢x NE zu⸣-[...] | ... to ... |
| r | ||
| 1' | [e₂-gi₄-a dumu-saŋ {d}uraš]-⸢a siškur₂⸣ <(de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | May the bride, the daughter of Uraš-ea, speak a siskur prayer to you |
| 2' | [egir₃ zid-da gašan-ka-teš₂-a]-⸢sig₁₀⸣-ga-ke₄ a-ra-zu <(de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | The true princess Gašankatešaga, utter an arazu prayer to you |
| 3' | [egir₃ gu-la gašan-ŋu₁₀ {d]}⸢na⸣-na-a siškur₂ <(de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | Great princess, bull of Enana, may he speak a siskur prayer to you |
| 4' | [... uru₂-ze₂]-eb-ba{ki}ke₄ a-ra-zu <(de₃-ra-ab-be₂)> | May he/she say an arazu prayer to you |
| 5' | [i-bi₂ zid bar-mu-un]-⸢ši⸣-ib₂ de₃-ra-ab-be₂ | May he say to you "look faithfully" |
| 6' | [gu₂-zu zig₃-mu-un]-⸢ši⸣-ib₂ ⸢de₃⸣-<(ra-ab-be₂)> | May he/she say to you "raise your neck towards him" |
| 7' | [šag₄-zu de₃-en-na-huŋ]-⸢ŋa₂ de₃⸣-<(ra-ab-be₂)> | May he say to you "may your heart be pacified to him" |
| 8' | [bar-zu de₃-en-na]-⸢sed⸣-de₃ de₃-<(ra-ab-be₂)> | May he say to you "may your liver be soothed to him" |
| 9' | [šag₄-zu šag₄ ama] ⸢tu⸣-ud-da-gin₇ ki-bi-še₃ ha-ma-gi₄-gi₄ | May your heart, like the heart of a birth mother, be restored to its place for me |
| 10' | [ama tu-ud-da a]-⸢a⸣ tu-ud-da-gin₇ ki-bi-še₃ <ha-ma-gi₄-gi₄> | Like the birth mother, like the birth father, may it be restored to its place for me |
| 11' | [er₂-ša₃-huŋ-ŋa₂ ...] {d}en-ki-ga-ke₄ | The eršahuŋa prayer of Enki |
Sources & licences
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- 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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