1879-07-08, 0331 unpublished unassigned ? (P451942)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal); CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1879-07-08, 0331 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P451942 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal); CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By nn · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| a [0:1] a 1'a 1'–a 1'a 1' | [. . .], may Ea [be glad on your account] |
| a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2' | [. . . the wordin]g of a lifted-hand prayer [. . .] |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | [Its ritual]: He lifts up his hands in the presence of [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4' | [. . .] . in flour for . [. . .] |
| a [4:5] a 5'5'–a 5'5' | [.]. . He lifts up his hands [. . .] |
| a [5:6] a 6'6'–a 6'6' | [. . .] . . . favorable things in the presence of [. . .] |
| a [6:7] a 7'7'–a 7'7' | . [Incantation: O most] high . . . [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| a | ||
| 1' | [... {d]}e₂-a li-[riš-ka] | |
| 2' | [KA-INIM]-⸢MA⸣ ŠU-IL₂-LA₂ [...] | |
| 3' | [DU₃.DU₃.BI] ⸢ŠU⸣{su} IL₂ ⸢IGI⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [x (x)] ⸢x⸣ ina ZI₃.MAD.GA₂ ana ⸢x⸣-[...] | |
| 5' | [x] ⸢x⸣ ŠU{su} IL₂ [...] | |
| 6' | [x (x)]-⸢šu₂⸣ SIG₅-MEŠ IGI [...] | |
| 7' | [EN₂ šur]-⸢bu⸣-u [...] | |
| 8' | [x x] ⸢x na⸣-[...] | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
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)
- 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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