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BBR pl. 26 Rm 2, 249 (P425016)
Ritual and liturgical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BBR pl. 26 Rm 2, 249 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425016 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Ritual and liturgical |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 1 5' | You recite the incantation for the ram. |
| col 1 10' | The breast-bone, the fatty tissue, the KA.NE-flour, the thigh |
| col 1 11' | You mix salt with a reed basket. |
| col 1 2' | Is it pleasing to your great divinity? |
| col 2 6' | You set up the table before (the god's) god. |
| col 1 4' | You make a flint, make a flint, and pour a uluhhu-flour. |
| col 1 7' | Just as you do as you do! |
| col 2 2' | umû-plant, tamarisk |
| col 1 9' | just as you have done before |
| col 1 6' | You strew a censer behind me that is before the god. |
| col 2 3' | You will see a censer in front of a god. |
| col 2 4' | "Irditu" (means) "before a censer." |
| col 1 12' | (If) there is a famine in front of a censer, a frog, a rib and a fatty tissue |
| col 2 5' | The lord of the sacrifices will raise his hand, and he will make the utnnû-demon rise. |
| col 2 7' | He who sits on a table and appears in front of him |
| col 1 8' | You burn a libation bowl of oil before Ishtar-Alu. |
| col 1 3' | (Property) of whose construction (is) flesh, omens, |
| col 2 8' | You libate a censer and a censer. |
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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