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BM 064268 (P480881)
Prayer, Achaemenid, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | BM 064268 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480881 |
| Museum no. | BM 064268 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [... liq]-⸢mi-šu₂⸣-nu-[ti] | May ... pass by them. |
| 2' | [... i]-⸢na⸣ A A.GUB₂.[BA-e] | ... he will descend. The water of the agub priest |
| 3' | [...] ⸢lud⸣-lul TU₆ ⸢EN₂⸣ | ... lud-elul, Incantation formula. |
| 4' | [(...) šipta annīta x]-⸢šu₂ ŠID⸣-ma kiš-pi ša₂ kaš-šap-ti | ... this šiptu ..., and the witchcraft of the warlock |
| 5' | [īpuša i]-⸢tur⸣-ru-ma kaš-šap-ti i-ṣab-ba-tu-ši | he performed, he returned, and the beer poured out against him |
| 6' | AL.TIL | [Finished.] |
| 7' | GABA.RI ba-bi-⸢i⸣-lum{ki} GIM la-bi-ri-⸢ša⸣ | Copy of Babi-elum, written in the same way as Labi-rī-eša. |
| 8' | ša-ṭi-ir-ma ba-ar tup-⸢pi⸣ {m}⸢mu⸣-še-zib-{d}EN | Written and collated according to the original. |
| 9' | DUMU {m}⸢A₂⸣.GAL₂-TI.LA-{d}⸢ASAR⸣.RI | son of Ea-ekalli-balāṭ-eriba, |
| 10' | {lu₂}ŠAMAN₂.LA₂ {lu₂}KA.PIRIG a-ga-aš₂-gu-u | the šamanla (and) the kaprīpīru (of) the Ayakû |
| 11' | ⸢a⸣-na IGI.DU₈.A-ša IN.SAR-ma ib₂-⸢ri₃⸣ | Written and collated according to its original. |
Sources & licences
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- 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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