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Shurpu 5-6 G (P425797)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shurpu 5-6 G |
|---|---|
| ID | P425797 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| 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 col 1 2' | He made the evil-doer bow down at his feet, he made the evil-doer rise up. |
| obverse col 1 9' | May it be a curse for him. |
| obverse col 1 12' | The good tug ritual of Enki |
| obverse col 1 5' | a curse of fearsomeness whose face |
| obverse col 1 14' | like sumac |
| obverse col 1 4' | that evildoer |
| obverse col 1 3' | His curse, his curse, and his curse, |
| obverse col 1 10' | that no one can know |
| obverse col 1 13' | The curse in the woman of Ea |
| obverse col 1 7' | to his mother : may he be the curse of his mother. |
| obverse col 1 6' | may he be his father’s curse |
| obverse col 1 8' | may he be his beloved brother. |
| obverse col 1 11' | May it be the curse of the great queen of a man. |
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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