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BM 045419 (P480857)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 045419 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480857 |
| Museum no. | BM 045419 |
| 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 | ||
| 12 | [... te-te]-ep-šu te-te-ep-šu₂ kiš-pi-ša₂ | ... you perform, you perform witchcraft |
| 13 | [...] ru-ḫe-e-⸢ki⸣ | ... Ruḫē-Ea |
| 14 | [... ba]-⸢ra⸣-ri ina UR₃-MU ša₂ EN.NUN ina KA₂-MU ša₂ ki-⸢di⸣-[ni] | (Sum) ..., in my lap, the watch is at my gate. (Akk) In my lap(?), in my gate of my lap |
| 15 | [...] ⸢ul⸣-te-šib ša₂ ia-a-ti u E₂-ia | ... he left behind me and my house |
| 16 | [...] ⸢ru⸣-ḫu-u₂ ru-su-u₂ up-ša₂-šu-u₂ ⸢ḪUL⸣.[MEŠ DU₃-ši] | ... ēru-ḫbû-plant, rūsu-plant (and) the plants of the e-Ḫul-e-šuma-plant |
| 17 | [... x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x ... {d]}⸢gira⸣ u {d}nuska x {šim}GUR₂.GUR₂ u {⸢u₂⸣}[KUR.KUR] | ... Egirae and Nuska ... kukru-aromatic and ešamaš-plant |
| 18 | [... x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x ...] ⸢ka⸣-ši sa-par₂-ri ša₂ DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ x [x-x] | ... the net of the great gods |
| 19 | [... li-qat]-tu-u₂ pa-gar-⸢ki⸣ | ... may they take away. Carchemish |
| 20 | [...] ⸢UŠ₁₁⸣.BUR₂.RU.⸢DA⸣.[KAM] | ... UŠv11-eburru-e22da-e23. |
| 21 | [... tu]-⸢qat-tar⸣-<šu₂> ⸢ṭi⸣-[ik-me-en-šu₂ ...] | ... Tū-qattar-ešû, his ... eṭi-ikmen |
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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