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OIM A03471 (P480803)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | OIM A03471 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480803 |
| Museum no. | OIM A03471 |
| Collection | Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures West Asia & North Africa Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 5' | DU₃.DU₃.BI ina GE₆ A.GUB₂.BA [GIN-an] | Its ritual: At night you set up a censer. |
| 6' | NIG₂.NA GI.IZI.LA₂ [...] | a censer (and) torch |
| 7' | SU LU₂ BI tuš-ba-aʾ-ma ⸢ina⸣ [šēri] | “If a man’s body is swollen, and he is seized by incantations |
| 8' | GI.DU₈ GIN-an 7 NINDA ZIZ₂.⸢A⸣.[AN GAR-an] | You set up a offering table. You set out 7 loaves of emmer. |
| 9' | ZU₂.LUM.MA {zi₃}EŠA ⸢DUB⸣-[aq] | dates, ešû-flour |
| 10' | NINDA.I₃.DE₂.A LAL₃ I₃.NUN.NA GAR-⸢an⸣ | You set out emmer bread, honey (and) butter. |
| 11' | {dug}A.DA.GUR₅ GIN-an SISKUR [BAL-qi₂] | You set up an adagurru-vessel and libate a sacrifice. |
| 12' | KAŠ BAL-qi₂ LU₂ BI ina UGU ⸢šuk⸣-[bu-su] | You libate beer. That man on top of the šuk̂-boss |
| 13' | GUB-su mal ŠA₃-šu₂ DAB-tum | (If) he stands (there): he will be seized by his own hand. |
| 14' | DU₁₁.DU₁₁ ḪUL-šu₂ DU₈-ir ⸢BUR₂⸣ [...] | (If) he speaks, his evil will be undone, the ešbur-plant . |
| 15' | qi₂-bit-su ma-[ag-rat] | his command is accepted |
| 16' | ⸢EN₂ {d}UTU LUGAL AN-e⸣ [u] ⸢KI⸣-[tim] | Incantation: O Shamash, king of heaven and earth |
| r | ||
| 1 | na-siḫ ⸢ki⸣-[iš-pi ...] | the guardian of Ekišpi |
| 2 | ... ša {lu₂}UŠ₁₁.⸢ZU⸣ [u {munus}UŠ₁₁.ZU] | of the ēriš-priest and the awītu-priestess |
| 3 | na-siḫ mim-ma ⸢ḪUL⸣ [...] | Remove whatever ešḫullu-plant |
| 4 | na-siḫ mi-iḫ-ru [...] | The one who removes the šiḫ ritual assemblage |
| 5 | ana-ku {m}{d}AG-KAR-ir ⸢A⸣ [x-x-x-x] | I, Nabû-ēṭir, the ... of the temple |
| 6 | du-uš-mu-u ⸢pa⸣-[liḫ-ka] | the one who makes you tremble |
| 7 | ina ḪUL ka-mu-ne₂-e ⸢ša₂⸣ [ina E₂-MU] | On account of the evil of the kammunû-demon in my house |
| 8 | ina KI.TA NA₄ nap-⸢li⸣-[sa-an-ni-ma] | In the lower part of the stone of nap’esannu |
| 9 | ša-pal-ka ak-mis ⸢TUG₂⸣.[SIK₂-ka aṣ-bat] | I have smeared your lips, I have bathed your feet with eta esik-plant |
| 10 | ina ḪUL {kuš}A₂.KAR₂ NIG₂.AK.A.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | On account of the evil of a leather bag, a censer |
| 11 | šu-ti-qa-an-ni-ma ḪUL ša₂-[a-šu NU TE] | Speak to me, so that the evil of his will not approach me |
| 12 | NU DIM₄ NU KUR-an-ni ⸢ia⸣-[a-ši] | I will not come, I will no longer reach me. |
| 13 | {d}UTU ina u₄-me ŠEŠ-e GUB-[iz ...] | Šamaš, on a favorable day, stood |
| 14 | ina ḪUL an-ne₂-e šu-ti-qa-[an-ni-ma] | By this curse curse me, and |
| 15 | da₃-lil₂ DINGIR-ti-ka [...] | (Sum) The praise of your divinity ... (Akk) The rejoicing of [your] divinity |
| 16 | ana UN.MEŠ DAGAL.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | To the wide-spread people |
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