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Sm 2142 (P426302)

Royal Ritual, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSm 2142
IDP426302
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Ritual
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa20 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse Column ii [1:2] ii 2'2'–ii 2'2'[......] Belet-balaṭ[i ......]
Obverse Column ii [2:3] ii 3'3'–ii 3'3'[...... he pours out] three libat[ion bowls].
Obverse Column ii [3:4] ii 4'4'–ii 4'4'[......] sits [on] the ground [......].
Obverse Column ii [4:5] ii 5'5'–ii 5'5'The king [mounts] the riksh[aw ......].
Obverse Column ii [5:6] ii 6'6'–ii 6'6'He performs a sheep offering, [treats] the gods [......]
Obverse Column ii [6:7] ii 7'7'–ii 7'7'The king [mounts] the rikshaw [......]

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
ii
1'[x x x x x x] ⸢da⸣ [x x x x]
2'[x x x x x] {d}be-let—⸢TI⸣.[LA x x x x]
3'[x x x] x 03 pa-gi-⸢li⸣ [u₂-ga-mar x x]
4'[x x x] kaq-qa-ri TUŠ šu-[x x x x x]
5'⸢LUGAL⸣ ina UGU {giš}ša₂—ša₂-da-[di x x x x]
6'{udu}SISKUR i-na-sah DINGIR-MEŠ x [x x x x]
7'LUGAL ⸢ina⸣ [UGU] {giš}ša₂—ša₂-da-⸢di⸣ [x x x x x]

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