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Rm 0259 (P424669)
CANONICAL > Literature, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 0259 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424669 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | 'May they be mighty, may they be mighty, may they be mighty, |
| obverse 4 | ... sphinxes of juniper, |
| reverse 2' | The first-fruits offerings, the offerings of the scribal art, which the magnates who came before me had seen, were pleasing to the kings, my lords. |
| obverse 15 | ... this... may he cross over. |
| obverse 5 | ... in the tirinte(?) |
| obverse 9 | ..................... |
| obverse 14 | The evil demons have sinned against me, and they have sinned against me. |
| reverse 3' | Whoever this work does not acquire the wisdom of Nabû, the one who carries out the sand dunes as many as there are |
| obverse 12 | ... I was assiduous, and I was frightened. |
| obverse 13 | .......... and |
| obverse 11 | ... may I not see..., may Gira tear out. |
| obverse 3 | .... let me speak... |
| obverse 7 | .... he is a thief, he is a lion. |
| obverse 10 | ... in |
| obverse 2 | ... to his presence I rejoiced over the risings. |
| reverse 4' | I wrote, collated, and checked it. For my reading, I established it in my palace. |
| reverse 1' | The palace of Assurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria, which Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| obverse 6 | ... let me make you... |
| obverse 8 | ... there is..., and I shall be a widow. |
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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