1891-05-09 Bu, 0104 unpublished unassigned ? (P452887)
Royal Ritual, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1891-05-09 Bu, 0104 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P452887 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Ritual |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa20 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] 2'2'–2'2' | They go [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | They bu[rn a female kid ......]. |
| Obverse [3:5] 4'4'–5'5' | On the 16th day, at night, they li[ght ...] a fi[re] in the the House of Aššur [...]. |
| Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6' | [They start] the brazier before Aššur. |
| Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7' | [......] one ram on the brazier. |
| Obverse [7:8] 8'8'–8'8' | Kakka comes out [......] |
| Obverse [8:9] 9'9'–9'9' | [......] before the brazier |
| Obverse [9:10] 10'10'–10'10' | [...] the brazier before Aš[šur] |
| Obverse [10:11] 11'11'–11'11' | [...] the torch in [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] 12'12'–12'12' | The people of the country [......] |
| Obverse [12:14] 13'13'–14'14' | He prepares the bed [......] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | x [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | il-lu-⸢ku⸣ x [x x x x x {mi₂}AŠ₂.QAR] | |
| 3' | i-qa-⸢al⸣-[lu x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢UD⸣ 16-KAM₂ ša₂ ba-a-di i-ša₂-[tu x x] | |
| 5' | ina E₂—aš-šur u₂-ša₂-[hu-zu x x x x] | |
| 6' | ka-nu-nu ina pa-an {d}aš-šur ⸢i⸣-[x x] | |
| 7' | 01 UDU.NITA₂ ina UGU ka-nu-ni [x x x x] | |
| 8' | {d}GA.GA u₂-ṣa-a ina x [x x x x x] | |
| 9' | ina IGI ka-nu-ni [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | ka-nu-nu ina IGI {d}aš-⸢šur⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 11' | zi-iq-tu ina [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 12' | UN-MEŠ KUR x [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 13' | {⸢giš}NA₂⸣ GAR-an [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 14' | [x x]-⸢bu u₂⸣-[x x x x x x 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)
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