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FAOS 18 pl. XI (P414402)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | FAOS 18 pl. XI |
|---|---|
| ID | P414402 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 3 18' | my name, the divine powers of the lady of heaven |
| obverse col 1 21 | in the presence of Tahazi, in my arms |
| reverse col 3 19' | I am the goddess Itar |
| reverse col 3 2' | To Enlil in battle and battle... |
| obverse col 1 18 | The esheshu-demon of all the lands is the water |
| reverse col 3 4' | I have written to the king, my lord, in a tahazi prayer. |
| obverse col 1 16 | When I was in the mouth of battle |
| reverse col 3 7' | You have made the top (of the head) of the ball (plow) grow |
| reverse col 3 10' | they will write down his speckled juniper |
| obverse col 1 20 | When I stand in battle |
| obverse col 1 12 | When I beseech the sun in the evening |
| obverse col 1 5 | I am... my lord. |
| obverse col 2 18 | he made abundantly abundant for the sea and that sea. |
| reverse col 3 13' | I stand in the heavens and... the heavens. |
| obverse col 1 7 | I will set up a scepter and a great scepter. |
| obverse col 1 14 | When Utu comes out from the hand, |
| obverse col 1 17 | According to the wording of a tahazi prayer in my city, |
| top 1 | Who will... me? |
| obverse col 1 11 | I am the one who is smitten in the heavens. |
| obverse col 1 19 | of the lands |
| obverse col 2 2 | The sapinnu-vessel is smashed and placed in the lap. |
| obverse col 2 6 | O lady, who fears heaven and... |
| obverse col 2 17 | The sea is full of abundance, the sea is full of rejoicing |
| obverse col 1 2 | Who is he who can smite? |
| reverse col 3 15' | I stand in the steppe and.... |
| reverse col 3 14' | You stand in the earth, make a plant grow. |
| obverse col 2 4 | In the sky, in the morning, in my uzziya-demon |
| obverse col 2 8 | ... my speech in the heavens... |
| obverse col 2 7 | My dead one, who is afraid of heaven |
| reverse col 3 17' | Who is he who can smite? |
| obverse col 1 13 | In the heavens, in the sand dunes, in my hand |
| reverse col 3 1' | Enlil, in the battle, did he not seize him. |
| obverse col 2 19 | The reed mat(?) of the mother, the reed mat(?), the reed mat(?), the reed mat(?), the barley |
| obverse col 2 21 | The watercourse of the Euphrates was piled up. |
| obverse col 1 1 | who has seized him, he will recover. |
| reverse col 3 16' | Who is it that has seized me? |
| obverse col 2 10 | ... my radiance is not present in the Apsu?. |
| obverse col 1 4 | Its equids are..., it is... |
| reverse col 3 3' | he smote the battle, he smote the bala. |
| obverse col 1 10 | When the horns of heaven are raised |
| obverse col 1 6 | Its musukkannu-priests are all right, and |
| reverse col 3 12' | You stand in heaven, the rain |
| obverse col 2 1 | The libirsi rites, the sacred rites, the lapis lazuli... |
| obverse col 2 20 | he shall return to the suckling and the suckling shall be released. |
| obverse col 2 3 | When I stand in the heavens |
| obverse col 2 11 | The divine powers, the pure sabar net, the supreme sabar net, he heaped up |
| obverse col 1 9 | In the sky, in the morning, in my body |
| obverse col 2 9 | The fish eat my me(!?) in the engur |
| obverse col 1 23 | The flood of his army is favourable. |
| obverse col 2 22 | I made it shine like daylight for the agi-priests. |
| obverse col 1 22 | The marshes carry the water. |
| obverse col 1 8 | When I was standing in the heavens |
| reverse col 4 1' | Its musukkannu-demon is full of supplication |
| reverse col 3 11' | I am the one who smites the necks of my neck. |
| reverse col 3 5' | he sat in battle like a bird. |
| reverse col 3 6' | I will constantly write to you as follows: |
| obverse col 2 5 | She is the lady who is surpassing in heaven |
| obverse col 1 3 | Whoever erases my inscribed name, |
| obverse col 2 14 | Its oil is a bitumen that does not pass by birds |
| reverse col 4 5' | Written according to its original and collated. |
| reverse col 4 4' | The twenty-first tablet (of which) a city has been abandoned. |
| obverse col 1 15 | from the sun to the midst of the sun |
| reverse col 4 2' | I am constantly rejoicing and praying to you. |
| reverse col 4 3' | who makes a fitting thing resplendent,... |
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
- 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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