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Shurpu 9 Q (P425746)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shurpu 9 Q |
|---|---|
| ID | P425746 |
| 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 4' | new break |
| obverse 10' | allure |
| obverse 1' | ... allure |
| obverse 3' | house of juniper |
| obverse 7' | in Eridu the great storehouse |
| obverse 11' | tongue of evil |
| obverse 2' | evil-doer |
| obverse 6' | Its light in heaven |
| obverse 13' | its foundations |
| obverse 8' | the house of Enlil, the ziggurat |
| obverse 5' | ... a reed basket |
| obverse 14' | ... did not know |
| obverse 15' | pure... |
| obverse 9' | If he goes, he will reach the highest rank. |
| obverse 12' | Incantation: Oath filled with lapis lazuli |
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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