BMS 38 (P452899)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BMS 38 |
|---|---|
| ID | P452899 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | for [. . .] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [Your] prais[es . . .] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [. . .] the wordin[g of . . .] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [Its] ritual [. . .] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | Incantation: O most hi[gh . . . ] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | And [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ana⸣ di-[...] | |
| 2' | ⸢da₃⸣-li₂-[li₂-ka ...] | |
| 3' | ⸢KA-INIM⸣-[MA ...] | |
| 4' | DU₃.DU₃.[BI ...] | |
| 5' | EN₂ ⸢šur⸣-[bu-u ...] | |
| 6' | ⸢u₃⸣ ma-[...] | |
| 7' | ⸢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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