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Rm 2, 171 (P424974)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 2, 171 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424974 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| 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' | [... ŠU.NAM.ERIM₂].⸢MA⸣ ŠU.⸢GIDIM⸣.[MA ...] | ... Hand of a Ghost Hand of Ghost |
| 2' | [...] UGU-šu₂ GAL₂-ši [...] | ... there will be ... over him |
| 3' | [...] ⸢EGIR⸣-šu₂ LAL-at DINGIR-⸢šu₂⸣ [...] | ... its afterlife is diminished, its god ... |
| 4' | [... par₂]-⸢da⸣ MAŠ₂.GE₆.MEŠ ḪUL.MEŠ MAŠ₂.⸢GE₆⸣.[MEŠ ...] | ... “The black-headed people, the evil spirits, the dark-headed ones |
| 5' | [...] DINGIR u {d}iš₈-tar₂ nu-ug-[gat ...] | ... of god and goddess, who is unfathomable |
| 6' | [...] ; lib₃-ba-⸢šu₂⸣ [...] | ... his heart |
| 7' | [... šup-lu]-⸢uḫ⸣ ina KA UN.MEŠ ⸢ze⸣-[e-ru ...] | ... šupluḫ-plant in the mouth of the people ezêru-plant |
| 8' | [...] ⸢da⸣-ṣu-šu₂ i-qab-bu-šu-ma [...] | ... he speaks to him and |
| 9' | [...] ⸢šim⸣-ma-ta TUK.TUK-u IGI.MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ [...] | ... you have ... the eyes of the šimmata-plant |
| 10' | [...] ⸢INIM⸣.MEŠ-šu₂ im-ta-na-aš-ši MUNUS ŠA₃-⸢šu₂⸣ [...] | (Sum) ... his words have been uttered to him(?) (Akk) The wording of the incantation has been repeated to him |
| 11' | [...] ⸢IL₂⸣-šu₂ ana gi-mir TI.LA.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | ... his elalu-vessel for the totality of his life |
| 12' | [...] ⸢GAL⸣-u a-ša₂-red AN-e u KI-tim ABGAL [...] | ..., the sage of heaven and earth, the one chosen by the gods |
| 13' | [...] še-mu-u tes₂-li-ti ⸢le⸣-[qu-u₂ ...] | ... hear my prayer (and) accept my prayer |
| 14' | [... na]-⸢piš⸣-ti a₃-wi-lu-tum ⸢ta⸣-[me-eḫ ...] | “... the supplication of a man |
| 15' | [... ta]-⸢šim⸣-ti ša bul-lu-⸢ṭu⸣ [...] | ... the ta’ešīmti of the bullû-priesthood |
| 16' | [...] ⸢ta⸣-ma-a-ti TIL-u [...] | ... the ēšû-demons, finished |
| 17' | [... ḪE₂].⸢GAL₂⸣ mu-deš-šu-u ⸢aš₂⸣-na-⸢an⸣ [...] | ... the Ekallu-temple, the one who knows, the Ašena-ešān ... |
Sources & licences
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