BMS 45 (P452504)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 45 |
|---|---|
| ID | P452504 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By King, Leonard W. · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| a [1:2] a 2'2'–a 2'2' | [. . . may I l]ive, may I [. . .] |
| a [2:3] a 3'3'–a 3'3' | [. . .] . . you spoke, O Shamash . [. . .] |
| a [3:4] a 4'4'–a 4'4' | [It is the wo]rding of a lifted-hand prayer to [. . .] |
| b [1:2] b 2'2'–b 2'2' | [. . .] well-being [. . .] |
| b [2:3] b 3'3'–b 3'3' | [. . .] in the crime of . . [. . .] |
| b [3:4] b 4'4'–b 4'4' | [. . .] . . . you [. . .] |
| b [4:5] b 5'5'–b 5'5' | [. . .] carry off [. . .] |
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' | [...] ⸢x⸣ TI ⸢BI⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [... lu-ub]-⸢luṭ⸣ lu-[...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢x⸣ UM taq-bu-u {d}UTU ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [KA]-⸢INIM⸣-MA ŠU-IL₂-LA₂ {d}[...-KAM] | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢x x x x⸣ [...] | |
| b | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ RA KA [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢šul⸣-ma-a-⸢na⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢i⸣-na še-eṭ IGI ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [...]-ba-la tu-⸢x⸣-[...] | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢ta-bil⸣ [...] | |
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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