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Shurpu 4 O (P424689)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shurpu 4 O |
|---|---|
| ID | P424689 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 1' | On account of..... |
| reverse 2' | (As for) the one whose (personal) god and (personal) goddess are angry with him |
| reverse 10' | On this day, which so-and-so, son of so-and-so,... |
| reverse 1' | of the house |
| obverse 8' | Whom an evil incantation... |
| obverse 12' | of Lamatu |
| reverse 8' | his tears, his tears,..., |
| obverse 14' | My guilt... |
| obverse 13' | Whoever... anything... |
| reverse 3' | The utterance of his (personal) god and his (personal) goddess |
| obverse 2' | ... by the mouth of a robbery... |
| obverse 7' | Whom an evil god... |
| obverse 15' | Hand of the gods... |
| reverse 4' | May his oath be released. On this day... |
| obverse 4' | Who... the evil... |
| reverse 7' | May his land be given over to her, his illness... |
| reverse 11' | ... with joy... |
| reverse 5' | Tablet of his sin, his sin, his sin, his mother... |
| obverse 10' | of Lamatu |
| obverse 9' | (Property) of the incantation priest of the god... |
| obverse 5' | Who... an evil ghost. |
| reverse 9' | The ewe that is not a liar, its nissaqû-demon... |
| obverse 3' | of evil... |
| obverse 6' | Whom an evil demon... |
| reverse 6' | May his sins tear out, his sins... |
| obverse 11' | of Lamatu |
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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