1879-07-08, 0142 unpublished unassigned ? (P451855)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1879-07-08, 0142 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P451855 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
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| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [. . .] your . . . |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [. . .] stands |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [. . .] my face |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [. . .] was not early(?) |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [. . .] I have sinned |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [How long will . . .] your face [be turned a]way? |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [How long will . . .] you be angry with me? |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [. . .] establish! |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | May [. . .] be at rest for me. |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | [. . .] accept my prayer. |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | [. . .] who fears your [divinity]. |
| Obverse [14:15] o 15'15'–o 15'15' | [. . .] all of your . . . |
| Obverse [15:16] o 16'16'–o 16'16' | [. . . at] your [fe]et I kneel. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [. . .] I seize . . . of your great [divini]ty. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [. . .] recieve my prayer. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [. . .] Let me praise [the best] mother (lit. mother of mothers). |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | It is [the wording of a hand-lifting] prayer to Dilbat. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | You set up in front of you . . . of juniper. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [. . .] you recite [three] times and you bow. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [. . . Ash]urbanipal, king of the world, king of the land of Assyria, |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [. . .] they gave to him [wisd]om. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | [. . . of the sc]ribal arts. |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [. . .] they had [not le]arned. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] x [x (x)] | |
| 2' | [...] x x [x] | |
| 3' | [...]-x-ka | |
| 4' | [...]-⸢x⸣ ma ti | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢i⸣-za-za | |
| 6' | [...] pa-nu-u-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 7' | [...]-x la NIM{pa} | |
| 8' | [...] u₂-gal-lil | |
| 9' | [a-di ma-ti ... suh-hu]-⸢ru⸣ pa-nu-ki | |
| 10' | [a-di ma-ti ... ze-na]-ti it-ti-ia | |
| 11' | [...] šu-⸢uk-ni⸣ | |
| 12' | [...] ⸢li⸣-nu-ha ia-⸢a-ši⸣ | |
| 13' | [...] ⸢TI⸣-i un-ni-⸢ni-ia⸣ | |
| 14' | [...] x pa-lih [DINGIR{ut]}ki | |
| 15' | [...] ⸢x⸣ DU₃{la₂} ⸢su-x-x-ki⸣ | |
| 16' | [... ša₂]-pal-ki ak-mis | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [...] ⸢x⸣ [... DINGIR]{⸢ti⸣}ki GAL{ti} aṣ-bat | |
| 2 | [...] tes₂-li₃-ti IGI-ri | |
| 3 | [... AMA] AMA-MEŠ lud-lul | |
| 4 | [KA-INIM-MA ŠU-IL₂]-⸢LA₂⸣ {mul}DIL-BAT-KAM | |
| 5 | [... ina pa]-⸢an-ka x x {giš}LI⸣ GAR{an} | |
| 6 | [... 3(diš)-⸢šu₂ ŠID{nu}ma tuš-ken⸣ | |
| 7 | [...] HI GA ⸢KA⸣ | |
| 8 | [... {m}AN].⸢ŠAR₂.DU₃⸣.A MAN ŠU₂ MAN ⸢KUR AN.ŠAR₂⸣{ki} | |
| 9 | [... uz-nu ra-pa-aš₂]-⸢ta iš-ru-ku-uš⸣ | |
| 10 | [... ṭup]-⸢šar-ru-u₂-ti⸣ | |
| 11 | [... la i]-⸢hu-uz-zu⸣ | |
| 12 | [...] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 13 | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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- 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)
- 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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