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BM 044437 (P480856)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 044437 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480856 |
| Museum no. | BM 044437 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 2 | For my life, I am Ninurta(?) of the heavens |
| obverse 9' | ... in..... |
| obverse 2' | ......... |
| obverse 7' | ......... dogs |
| reverse 7 | ... of kaappu(?) and mut-pitu(?) |
| reverse 3 | ... and you are able to(?) draw near to me |
| obverse 8' | ... of the door of the gate of Ami |
| reverse 5 | May my sin not approach me. |
| reverse 1 | Incantation: My dog, my dog, the dog of heaven and earth. |
| obverse 4' | ... who received(?) |
| obverse 5' | ... great... |
| obverse 3' | ... its father... |
| obverse 6' | ... oil, barley rations |
| reverse 6 | Who is there? Who is there? |
| reverse 4 | and utulni |
| obverse 10' | You recite (the incantation) upon the dogs. |
| obverse 1' | ... my(?)... |
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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