BM 043417 (P480853)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 043417 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480853 |
| Museum no. | BM 043417 |
| 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 6' | to the body... |
| obverse 3' | in my body... |
| obverse 4' | in the body... |
| obverse 12' | When Ea, the mamau-priest of the gods, made me enter |
| obverse 2' | in the body... |
| obverse 13' | In the presence of ama, I keep watch over you. |
| reverse 11' | on the day of... |
| obverse 8' | like anullu-plant, ammu-plant |
| obverse 14' | I saw your image, see your well-being. |
| reverse 10' | ...... |
| obverse 10' | He made me swear to me by the god |
| obverse 7' | like Ea my sagdu-priest (and) pure pnu-priest |
| obverse 9' | The awe-inspiring radiance of the land of Pn-Ea |
| obverse 16' | ...... |
| obverse 11' | he smashed my enemies, he smashed my enemies, and made my land bow down at my feet. |
| obverse 5' | to the body... |
| obverse 15' | ...... |
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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