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BM 048008 + BM 048028 (P480870)
Prayer, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | BM 048008 + BM 048028 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480870 |
| Museum no. | BM 048008 + BM 048028 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 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 | ||
| 1 | [DIŠ] ⸢NA⸣ EN INIM-⸢šu₂⸣ [...] | If a man is seized by a ghost, his word |
| 2 | [DIŠ] NA kiš-pi [...] | If a man witchcraft |
| 3 | ⸢DIŠ⸣ NA ša₂ kiš-⸢pi⸣ [...] | (If) a person, the one of witchcraft |
| 4 | ⸢DIŠ⸣ NA ana x [...] | (If) a man to |
| 5 | [DIŠ] ⸢NA⸣ x [...] | If a man's bed |
| 6 | [DIŠ NA ...] | If a man |
| 7 | ⸢DIŠ NA⸣ [...] | (If) a man |
| 8 | DIŠ NA [...] | If a man |
| 9 | DIŠ NA x [...] | If a man |
| 10 | ⸢EN₂⸣ ša₂ i-[x ...] | Incantation: “Who ... |
| 11 | ⸢EN₂⸣ [...] | Incantation: |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢EN₂⸣ [...] | Incantation: |
| 2' | EN₂ x [...] | Incantation: ... |
| 3' | EN₂ sar [...] | Incantation: ... sar |
| 4' | EN₂ ŋir₂ [...] | Incantation: “... a stag |
| 5' | lal x [...] | ... honey |
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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