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1881-02-04, 0260 unpublished unassigned ? (P452161)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1881-02-04, 0260 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P452161 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| col 3' 3' | by the command of...... |
| col 3' 9' | they should come...... |
| col 4' 10' | I established in my palace a scepter for my reading. |
| col 4' 12' | Whoever breaks the contract or his name with my name, |
| col 4' 11' | Its ritual: do not... the king of the gods. |
| col 3' 8' | with fish of the sea...... |
| col 4' 5' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| col 3' 14' | seized their hands, and seized them. |
| col 3' 13' | the captives of their hands...... |
| col 3' 2' | when...... |
| col 3' 4' | brought them...... |
| col 3' 5' | over the field in the meadow...... |
| col 3' 16' | and the god...... |
| col 3' 6' | the rest...... |
| col 4' 3' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| col 3' 11' | in the body of the field of my brother...... |
| col 3' 7' | with the bird of heaven...... |
| col 4' 13' | may Aur and Ninlil overthrow him fiercely and |
| col 4' 9' | I wrote, collated, and collated it on a tablet. |
| col 3' 15' | by the command of...... |
| col 3' 17' | by the command of...... |
| col 4' 4' | who is attentive to Aur and Ninlil |
| col 4' 2' | [Tablet x,... of the xth year, eponym year of ama-da''in]. |
| col 4' 8' | the wisdom of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards the shrines, as many as there are |
| col 3' 10' | their words to...... |
| col 4' 6' | They rejoiced, the eyes were full of joy, the scribal art. |
| col 4' 7' | Whoever in the future, at any time, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against the king, my lord, |
| col 3' 1' | ...... |
| col 4' 14' | May his name (and) his seed disappear from the land. |
| col 3' 12' | We, the captives of their(?)..., |
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
- 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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