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CM 01, fig. 15-16 (P480128)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | CM 01, fig. 15-16 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480128 |
| Museum no. | BM 064517 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 4 10 | .... his furious |
| obverse col 2' 7' | (Ditto:) You recite the incantation 'Utu-ama'. |
| obverse col 2' 18' | My and my house... |
| reverse col 3 6 | You take one sadiru-vessel to the right of the house, in front of.... |
| reverse col 4 11 | ... may they enter into his heart. |
| obverse col 1' 6' | ... you have made.... |
| obverse col 1' 2' | ...... |
| reverse col 3 7 | After it, a censer of omens... |
| obverse col 2' 14' | Let him guard your right and left. |
| obverse col 1' 8' | ... you release. |
| reverse col 4 7 | ... that I may build a house. |
| obverse col 2' 9' | You turn to the gate(?) (and) do not see a date palm |
| obverse col 2' 16' | who are present in my house, |
| obverse col 2' 19' | Father |
| reverse col 3 5 | You libate oil in it, make a libation... |
| reverse col 4 9 | ... wherever he wishes, may I achieve. |
| obverse col 1' 4' | ... tamarisk and locust of the land |
| obverse col 1' 14' | ... his....... |
| obverse col 2' 2' | ......... |
| obverse col 1' 16' | ... in the courtyard |
| reverse col 3 9 | After that, the goat, the fire,... a leather bag |
| obverse col 1' 12' | ... a wooden measuring vessel... in their arms |
| reverse col 3 11 | After him(?)... flour |
| reverse col 4 3 | ama and Asalluhi have given him instructions. |
| obverse col 2' 15' | or an ecstatic, or a ghost or anything evil, |
| reverse col 3 3 | ... pots, wherever the gates |
| obverse col 2' 8' | You libate honey, butter, wine, oil and barley. |
| obverse col 1' 11' | ...... you see.... |
| obverse col 2' 13' | You stand in front of Ea. |
| reverse col 4 8 | On account of joy and rejoicing, daily |
| obverse col 1' 10' | ... red... at the gate of the riverbank |
| reverse col 4 2 | You speak thus before Ea. |
| reverse col 3 8 | The man whose garment is red and a leather strap(?) |
| obverse col 2' 4' | ... for Ea, ama and Asalluhi |
| reverse col 3 1 | (If) his (own) ditto and his (own) ditto is good and that one does not return.... |
| reverse col 4 5 | ... for eternity |
| reverse col 3 2 | You recite the incantations that... |
| obverse col 1' 5' | ... in the halo |
| reverse col 4 6 | ......... the land |
| obverse col 2' 5' | (As for) the...s, the... of the tamarisk, the lion of the udu tree |
| obverse col 2' 11' | strong, strong, perfect one among the gods |
| obverse col 2' 6' | (Ditto:) Ur-idims of cedar. |
| obverse col 1' 7' | ... of the mountain in the gate of the river |
| reverse col 4 1 | ... good... in his heart |
| obverse col 1' 15' | ... oil in their arms. |
| obverse col 2' 10' | Incantation: You are a black-headed, ecstatic, ecstatic, and hostile enemy, |
| reverse col 4 12 | ... in his heart |
| obverse col 1' 13' | Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it? |
| obverse col 1' 9' | ... they enter... their..., they will be at peace. |
| obverse col 2' 12' | strong one, whose radiance is supreme, |
| reverse col 3 4 | (If) ditto a fire flashes on top of a man: cedar, juniper, |
| reverse col 3 10 | The nigkalga stone, the nigkalga stone, is the seed of the seed |
| reverse col 4 4 | Incantation:... good... you set up for me. |
| obverse col 2' 17' | by the command of Ea and Marduk |
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- 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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