BMS 54 (P425453)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 54 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425453 |
| 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 |
English translation
By King, Leonard W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| a [0:1] a 1'a 1'–a 1'a 1' | [I], so-and-so, son of so-and-so, whose (personal) god (is) so-and-so, [. . .] |
| a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2' | [On account of] the evil of a lunar eclipse, which [. . .] in month so-and-so, day so-and-so. |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | (And) the evil of portents (and) omens, unpleasant [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4' | [Which . . .] in my house and (throughout) my land, |
| a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5' | [By] your righteous command, let me [live], |
| a [5:6] a 6'6'–a 6'6' | [let me b]e well, that I may praise [. . .] |
| a [6:7] a 7'7'–a 7'7' | [Whatever] I plan let me [achieve]. |
| a [7:8] a 8'8'–a 8'8' | [. . .] truth [. . .] |
| a [8:9] a 9'9'–a 9'9' | [. . .] a favorable [. . .] |
| a [9:10] a 10'10'–a 10'10' | [. . . attend]ant [. . .] |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| a | ||
| 1' | [ana-ku] ⸢NENNI A NENNI ša DINGIR-šu₂ NENNI {d⸣}[...] | |
| 2' | [ina] ⸢HUL⸣ AN.GE₆ {d}3(u) ša ina {iti}NENNI U₄ ⸢NENNI⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [ina] ⸢HUL⸣ A₂-MEŠ GISKIM-MEŠ HUL-MEŠ [...] | |
| 4' | [ša] ina E₂.GAL-MU u KUR-MU [...] | |
| 5' | [i-na] DU₁₁.GA-ka kit-ti ⸢lu⸣-[ub-luṭ] | |
| 6' | [lu-uš]-⸢lim⸣-ma lu-uš-tam-mar [...] | |
| 7' | [e-ma] ⸢u₂⸣-ṣa-am-ma-ru lu-[uk-šu-ud] | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢kit⸣-tu₄ [...] | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢SIG₅{ti₃⸣} [...] | |
| 10' | [... na-an-za]-⸢zi⸣ [...] | |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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