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BM 047948 (P470039)

Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, unclear · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationBM 047948
IDP470039
Museum no.BM 047948
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreCommentary
Find spotunclear

English translation

By nn · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'[...] (means) “heaven” [...]
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'[... “to sn]are” means “to ti[e” ...]
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'[...] ... means “hand”; LÁ [means ...]
Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6'[... means] “to hate”; alternatively, ... [...]
Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7'[...] “cuneiform wedge” ... [...]
Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8'[...] wealth, said of go[ld ...]
Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11'[... sa]nctuar[ies ...]
Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1'[...] wing [...]

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1'[...] ⸢x⸣ [...]
2'[...]-MEŠ ni-[...]
3'[...] ša₂-mu-u₂ [...]
4'[... e]-be₂-lu ra-ka-⸢su⸣ [...]
5'[...]-⸢x⸣-u₂ qa-tu₄ LA₂ [...]
6'[...] ⸢ze⸣-ʾ-e-ru ša₂-niš za-⸢x⸣-[...]
7'[...] sa-an-⸢tak⸣-ku šal-lu-⸢x⸣ [...]
8'[...] ⸢meš⸣-re-e ša₂ KU₃.⸢GI⸣ [...]
9'[...] ⸢x-ga⸣ [x x] ra-⸢šal⸣-[...]
10'[...] ⸢x⸣ šu-⸢ru⸣-[...]
11'[... KI].⸢ŠU.PEŠ₅⸣ [...]
r
1'[...] kap-⸢pi⸣ [...]
2'[...] ⸢gu⸣-ur-⸢x⸣ [...]
3'[...] x [...]

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