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BM 040517 (P480785)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 040517 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480785 |
| Museum no. | BM 040517 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine > Šuʾila |
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 1 | Itar said: "After... |
| reverse 5 | Because he is a young man, he is a slave, he is a slave... |
| reverse 4 | heard that peace... |
| obverse 8' | My (personal) god and (personal) goddess |
| reverse 7 | Wording of a lifted-hand prayer to... |
| obverse 4' | I speak, I speak, I speak |
| obverse 3' | ... my truth... to my lips. |
| obverse 1' | ... all day |
| reverse 2 | Your mouth... your command |
| obverse 7' | The captives of their mouths... |
| obverse 6' | My utterance... |
| obverse 2' | .... my wife... |
| reverse 3 | ... his utterance |
| obverse 5' | May they not become hostile to me, may they not... |
| reverse 6 | (If) they are dark: he will die. |
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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