BM 041987 + BM 042111 (P480790)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 041987 + BM 042111 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480790 |
| Museum no. | BM 041987 + BM 042111 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
English translation
By Abusch, Tzvi & Schwemer, Daniel · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| side a [0:1] side a 1side a 1–side a 1side a 1 | Incantation: O Scorpius, Išha[ra . . .] |
| side a [1:2] side a 22–side a 22 | Merciful goddess, qu[een . . .] |
| side a [2:3] side a 33–side a 33 | Who hears prayers, accepts [. . .] |
| side a [3:4] side a 44–side a 44 | Who gives life [. . .] |
| side a [4:5] side a 55–side a 55 | [On] this day, sta[nd and . . .] |
| side a [5:6] side a 66–side a 66 | Ishum (and) Nergal [. . .] |
| side a [6:7] side a 77–side a 77 | [Who ke]ep your word, who . . . [. . .] |
| side a [7:8] side a 88–side a 88 | [Sta]nd with [her . . .] |
| side a [8:9] side a 99–side a 99 | May the god[s . . .] stand here [. . .] |
| side a [9:10] side a 1010–side a 1010 | The goddesses of the night [. . .] |
| side a [10:11] side a 1111–side a 1111 | [. . .] your [. . .] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| side a | ||
| 1 | ⸢EN₂⸣ {mul}GIR₂.TAB {d}iš-⸢ha⸣-[ra ...] | |
| 2 | il-tum reme₂-ni-tum šar-[ra-tum ...] | |
| 3 | še-mat ik-ri-bi le-⸢qat⸣ [...] | |
| 4 | ⸢qa⸣-i-šat ZI{ti} x [...] | |
| 5 | [ina] ⸢U₄⸣{mi} an-ni-i i-ziz-⸢zi⸣-[im-ma ...] | |
| 6 | {[d]}⸢i⸣-šum {d}U.GUR [...] | |
| 7 | [mu-kil]-⸢lu⸣ at-me-ki mu-⸢šak⸣-[...] | |
| 8 | [i-zi]-za-ma it-⸢ti⸣-[ša₂ ...] | |
| 9 | [li-iz]-⸢zi⸣-zu-nim ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ ...] | |
| 10 | {[d}IŠ₈.DAR]-⸢MEŠ⸣ GE₆{⸢ti⸣} [...] | |
| 11 | [...]-⸢ku⸣-nu [...] | |
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)
- 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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