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BPOA 03, pl. 38–39 (P480859)
Prayer, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 03, pl. 38–39 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480859 |
| Museum no. | BM 045483 + BM 046299 + BM 046319 + BM 046367 + BM 046394 + BM 046397 + BM 046507 + BM 046525 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 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 ii | ||
| 19 | ⸢EN₂ kiš-pu⸣ ze-ru-tu₂ it-ta-ṣu-⸢u₂⸣ [...] | Incantation: “The evil witch has seized the rebellious one |
| 20 | ⸢šim⸣-[ma-tu₂ ana] ⸢lib₃-bi⸣ a-me-⸢lu iš⸣-ta-da-ad KI.⸢SIKIL⸣ [...] | The šim-ēmâtu-plant was planted in the midst of the earth, it was sown (in) the place of the sikillu-tree |
| 21 | iš-ta-da-⸢ad⸣ <GURUŠ> ina ⸢UR₂⸣ KI.SIKIL u KI.SIKIL ina [...] | <If> a young man in a cloister, a lamentation priest, and supplication in ... |
| 22 | li-is-⸢suḫ⸣-[ka ina] ⸢SU {d}AMAR.UTU maš⸣-[maš-šu₂] | May he remove you from the E’SU of Marduk, his exorcist |
| 23 | li-lu-uṭ-ka {[d}nin]-⸢girima₃⸣ be-⸢let⸣ [šipti] | May Ningirima’e, the lady of the scepter |
| 24 | at-⸢lak⸣ ta-⸢ṣi⸣-[i šim]-⸢ma⸣-[tum (...)] | I go up to you, I rise up to the heavens |
| 25 | tal-li-ki ana x [...] | You came to ... |
| 26 | ip-pal-lis-ki-ma ⸢GURUŠ⸣ [...] | he looked at you, and the young man |
| 27 | ša₂ in-ne₂-ep-šu₂ x [...] | Whose deeds |
| 28 | u₃ KI.SIKIL ⸢tu⸣-[kas₃-si-i ...] | and the sanctuaries of Etu-kassî |
| 29 | {d}AMAR.UTU ma-x [...] | Marduk |
| 30 | {d}IDIM pa-še-⸢ir⸣ [...] | Ea, pāše-ērir |
| 31 | ina šip-tum ⸢KU₃⸣-[tum ...] | In the ēkûtu-vessel |
Sources & licences
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