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Shurpu 5-6 H (P425958)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shurpu 5-6 H |
|---|---|
| ID | P425958 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 3 6' | ......., |
| reverse col 3 14' | ... that man's head... |
| reverse col 3 8' | ... to the extispicy the curse... |
| reverse col 3 3' | ........ in your plow... |
| reverse col 3 4' | big gu-mah spear, big gu-flour |
| reverse col 3 13' | its people... his head |
| reverse col 3 5' | ... great... |
| reverse col 3 10' | ... for eternity... |
| reverse col 3 9' | he took away |
| reverse col 3 11' | ... the neck of an oath |
| reverse col 3 2' | ... supplications, utterances... |
| reverse col 3 1' | white wool that has sat on a throne |
| reverse col 3 7' | who the evil head of the people |
| reverse col 3 12' | ....... |
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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