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Rm 2, 396 (P425108)
CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Building Rituals, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 2, 396 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425108 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Building Rituals |
| 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 12 | ... of... |
| obverse 8 | ... field |
| reverse 1' | They rejoiced over me, they saw the wide sky, the joy of kingship. |
| reverse 2' | which among the kings who came before me |
| reverse 8' | Whoever breaks the contract or his name with my name, |
| obverse 5 | Do not... |
| obverse 9 | ... brother |
| reverse 7' | Its ritual: he is not negligent; the king of the gods, Ashur. |
| reverse 6' | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| obverse 14 | ... blood(?) |
| obverse 2 | You pound clay and set up new ones. |
| obverse 6 | ... his(?) |
| reverse 9' | may Aur and Ninlil overthrow him, and |
| reverse 5' | I wrote, collated, and collated it. |
| reverse 3' | whatever work that he did not complete |
| reverse 4' | The wisdom of Nergal, the one who is assiduous towards the shrines, as many as there are |
| reverse 10' | May his name and his seed disappear from the land. |
| obverse 3 | May the field be destroyed, and the new year come to an end. |
| obverse 4 | and you recite the incantation 'Great gods' |
| obverse 7 | ......... |
| obverse 1 | When you strew oil, |
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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