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MC 24, no. 237 (P480810)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | MC 24, no. 237 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480810 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| 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 |
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 iii | ||
| 1' | ⸢šar-ḫu⸣ [...] | šarḫu-e23-plant |
| 2' | na-din is-⸢qi₂⸣ [...] | he gave. Išqi-e |
| 3' | ša₂-kin na-⸢mir-tum⸣ [...] | Establisher of the na’emirtu-priesthood |
| 4' | ez-zu {d}⸢gira₃⸣ [...] | Your anger, Egirae |
| 5' | {⸢d⸣}gira₂ al-lal-li ⸢mu⸣-[ab-bit ...] | “Egira, the one who fills up with allure, emu-abbit |
| 6' | qa-mu-u₂ lem-nu-tu [...] | The evil qamû-demon |
| 7' | mu-ḫal-liq-qa rag-gu NUMUN ⸢kaš⸣-[ša₂-pi ...] | Who destroys the enemy, who scatters the seed of the ekašapi plant |
| 8' | mu-ab-bit lem-nu-tu₂ at-ta-ma ana-ku ⸢IR₃⸣-[ka ...] | You are the one who ensorcells evil, and I, your servant, |
| 9' | [...] u₄-mu an-ni-ia ina di-⸢ni⸣-[ia ...] | ... this day in my judgment |
| 10' | ⸢e-piš⸣ bar-tum te-ne₂-⸢na-a⸣ [...] | (Sum) The one who performs extispicy against me(?) (Akk) It is an oath that I perform against you |
| 11' | [... NU].⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | ... ewes ... |
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)
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