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Shurpu 5-6 N (P452587)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shurpu 5-6 N |
|---|---|
| ID | P452587 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|
| 8' | May Gilgame listen to prayers. |
| 6' | May I see the curse and see the light. |
| 11' | The curse related to a 'cattle-load' curse |
| 10' | I did not go to the work of the scribal art. |
| 12' | The ox is swollen, the womb is swollen, the ill-wisher is ill. |
| 2' | The sick one is swollen, the sick one is swollen in the morning. |
| 3' | The reeds which are present in my hand, my flesh, |
| 7' | Incantation: "If he is swollen, he will become frightened" (= EAE XVI unknown) |
| 1' | awe-inspiring brilliance(?), |
| 5' | May Gilgamesh speak in this day. |
| 9' | may he not return to his flesh. |
| 4' | May the reed of the brickwork of our gate be fashioned, and |
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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