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BA 05, 644-645 (P451987)
Literary letter and letter-prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BA 05, 644-645 |
|---|---|
| ID | P451987 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary letter and letter-prayer |
| 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 | {d}nin-i₃-si-na ⸢x⸣ [...] | Ninisina |
| 1a | a-na {d}GU.LA ⸢x⸣ [...] | To Gula, ... |
| 2 | egir₃ mah a₂ aŋ₂-ŋa₂-ni ⸢x⸣ [...] | Exalted princess, whose strength is surpassing |
| 2a | ru-ba-tu₄ ṣir-tu₄ ša [...] | rubatu priestess of the two world quarters |
| 3 | e₂-gi₄-a en {d}nun-nam-nir-ra ⸢x⸣ [...] | The bride, lord Nunamnir |
| 3a | kal-lat be-li₂ {d}NUN.NAM.NIR hi-rat [...] | The daughter of my lord, Nunamnir, the wife of |
| 4 | nibru{ki} barag mah an-ki-ke₄ nam-[...] | Nippur, the supreme dais of heaven and earth |
| 4a | i-na ni-ip-pu-ru pa-rak-ki ṣi-ri ša [...] | By means of the opening of the sceptre of |
| 5 | i₃-si-in{ki} iri nam-ereš-a-ni-ke₄ ⸢x⸣ [...] | Isin, the city of her queenship |
| 5a | i-na i-si-in IRI be-lu-ti-ša₂ ina ⸢x⸣ [...] | In the street of the city of her lordship in the ... |
| 6 | dur-an-ki-⸢ke₄ x⸣ [...] | Duranki |
| 6a | i-na DUR.AN.KI ⸢x⸣ [...] | In Duranki |
| 7 | ereš tu₆-dug₄-ga-a-ni til₃-la šu ⸢ŠIR₃⸣-ŠIR₃-⸢x x⸣ [...] | The maidservant whose incantation is alive, the hand of the ešuri-plant |
| 7a | be-el-tu ša tu-duq-qu-ša₂ ba-la-ṭu [...] | (Sum) The lady, whose strength is supreme(?) (Akk) The mistress, her strength (is) supreme |
| 8 | agrig mah-di an-na {d}en-lil₂-bi-⸢x⸣ [...] | The exalted steward of heaven, Enlilbi-e23 |
| 8a | ⸢x-x-x⸣-tu₄ ṣir-tu₄ ša it-ti {d}a-⸢nim⸣ [...] | “The ..., the intertwined one, who with Aya-enim |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ša⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | The ša’e23-plant |
| 2' | e-⸢hu-uz-zu⸣ IGI-MIN na-mir-[...] | Eḫuzzû |
| 3' | ⸢ša⸣ ina LUGAL-MEŠ ⸢a⸣-[lik ...] | “As for me, among the kings, I will go to ... |
| 4' | mim-ma šip-ru šu-⸢a-tu⸣ [...] | All that sent to me |
| 5' | ne₂-me-eq {d}[...] | the wisdom of |
| 6' | ina ⸢DUB-MEŠ aš₂⸣-ṭur [...] | In the tablets of Aštbur |
| 7' | a-na ta-mar-ti [...] | For the viewing of |
| 8' | qe₂-reb ⸢E₂⸣.[GAL-ia ...] | In the middle of my palace |
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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