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Shamash Religious Texts pl. 08 Sm 1612 (P426441)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shamash Religious Texts pl. 08 Sm 1612 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426441 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | EN₂ ⸢EN⸣ [EN.EN LUGAL] ⸢LUGAL⸣.LUGAL {d}UTU | Incantation: “Bēl-e, lord of kings, E-Šarruken, Šamaš |
| 2 | {⸢d⸣}UTU ⸢DI⸣.[KU₅ ... KI]-⸢tim⸣ EN KUR.KUR | The gods Šamaš, Madānu, (and) , the lords of the lands, |
| 3 | ⸢ed⸣-de-[šu-u₂ ...] ⸢DINGIR⸣.MEŠ ka-a-a-nu | “Its rites are a constant rite of the ešī-priests. |
| 4 | ⸢muš-te⸣-[šer AN].⸢TA⸣.MEŠ u KI.TA.⸢MEŠ⸣ | It is an emuštēšer of the upper and lower world. |
| 5 | [...] ⸢te-ne₂⸣-še-e-ti at-[ta] | You are the ... of the people |
| 6 | {[d]}⸢UTU DI.KU₅ ṣi-ru⸣ ša₂ qi₂-bit-su NU KUR₂-[ru] | O Ea, judge of the Eana, whose command cannot be changed |
| 7 | ⸢an⸣-na-šu DINGIR ma-am-man la e-nu-⸢u₂⸣ | No god can overturn it. |
| 8 | {d}UTU ina qi₂-bi-ti-ka ut-ta-ra a-pa-a-⸢ti⸣ | Šamaš, by your command I have turned back the eyes. |
| 9 | ed-lu ip-pe-et-ti pe-tu-u₂ in-ne₂-⸢dil⸣ | (Sum) The edlu priestess, the one who opens a door, opens the door. (Akk) The open door is opened, opens its door. |
| 10 | {d}UTU ina E₃-ka A.MEŠ ka-ṣu-ti lim-ḫu-ru-[ka] | May Šamaš, when you come out, give me water to drink! |
| 11 | ⸢DINGIR⸣.MEŠ ša₂ KUR lik-ru-⸢bu⸣-[ka] | May the gods of the land bless you. |
| 12 | ⸢DINGIR⸣.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ lib₃-ba-ka ⸢li⸣-[ṭib-bu] | The great gods of your heart, the elī-etbibbu |
| 13 | {[d]}⸢UTU⸣ {u₂}tar-muš ina ⸢pi⸣-[ia] | E-šamaš-e-23 (and) tarmusu-plant in my temple |
| 14 | {[u₂]}⸢IGI⸣-NIŠ ina [...] | ēriš-plant in |
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)
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