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BM 042317 (P480846)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 042317 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480846 |
| Museum no. | BM 042317 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 5' | Ditto for Enlil and Ninlil. |
| obverse 8' | Ditto he brought me to Marduk and Zarpanitu. |
| reverse 7' | Incantation formula: incantation of dispelling. |
| obverse 4' | He brought me out, he brought me the eere-tree |
| obverse 17' | With a tuqunu of water, Elam |
| reverse 5' | Nanaya, great lady |
| reverse 2' | ... my supplications |
| obverse 6' | After I had finished (the work) with me, I had the ere-e-mauru-wood |
| reverse 9' | You libate first-rate beer. |
| reverse 8' | The breast-bone is the eemau-tree. |
| obverse 13' | eema tree |
| obverse 3' | before Anu and Antu... |
| reverse 3' | ... are bringing... into my mouth |
| obverse 18' | the distant mountains, whose waters were swollen |
| obverse 10' | Ditto he brought me to Ninurta and Gula. |
| obverse 14' | ... eemau tree |
| obverse 16' | ... which is in the rear of the lands, in the rear of the adanu |
| obverse 9' | (Ditto) to Nabû and Tashmetu. |
| reverse 4' | By the command of Ea, ama, and Marduk, and the temple of the god Nergal |
| obverse 11' | In the presence of Zababa and Baba ditto, |
| obverse 7' | He brought ditto to Ea and Damkina. |
| obverse 12' | By means of Ura and Ninegal, ditto he purifies me. |
| reverse 6' | Kanisurra, mistress of women, may you see the incantation. |
| obverse 15' | (a kind of tree) |
| obverse 2' | ...... |
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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