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AfO 21, 079 Ass 14109 (P480897)

Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationAfO 21, 079 Ass 14109
IDP480897
Museum no.Ist A 00480
CollectionArkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenrePrayer
Find spotAssur (mod. Qalat Sherqat)
Coordinates35.4557, 43.2611

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.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
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1[... id-bu]-⸢ub⸣ lem-na-ti pu-u um-⸢ta⸣-[(al)-li ...](Sum) ... he spoke evil to me. (Akk) I speak evil to you.
2[...] kiš-pi-ši-na ša₂ eš-še-be₂-e eš-⸢še-pa-ti⸣-[ši-na]... of their witchcraft, which is called ešabšina
3[...] ⸢lem⸣-na-ti li-šal-lu ⸢lem⸣-[na-ti]May the ... of the eloquent ones be reconciled with the evil ones
4[... uz]-⸢zi⸣ KA EME na-aš₂-pa-rat GE₆ [...]... uz-ezī-e23 means “to open the mouth of a tongue,'' night ...
5[... te-te-pu-ša₂]-ni <...> a-na ⸢ra⸣-[ma-ni-ia]... you have done to me
6[x-x-x]-⸢ni⸣ kiš-pi-ku-nu ku-ša₂-pi-[ku-nu]... your witchcraft, your magic
7[GIM A.MEŠ mu]-sa-a-ti a-sur-ra-a ⸢li⸣-[im-lu-u](If) it is surrounded by water: the border of Elī-imlû.
8[EN₂ e-piš-tu₂ (u)] ⸢muš⸣-te-piš-tu₂ mu-ri(ru-)⸢bat⸣ [kiš-pi ru-ḫe-e]Incantation: “O witchcraft and emuštēpi-sorcery, who releases witchcraft,
9[ḫab-bi-lat x]-x-ri mu-[ḫab-bi-lat KI.SIKIL.MEŠ]The ..., the ... of the kisikillu-priests
10[x-x-x-x] ⸢ZI⸣-tim ta-bi-kat₃ [un-ni-ni]... the ešītum-vessel you set up.
11[x-x-x-x]-x ki [x-x en ni]... our lord
12[x-x-x-x-(x)]-x SAG.DU ina KA [x-x-x-(x)]... the capital in the mouth of ...
13[x-x-x-x]-x kat₃ ti x-[x-x-x-(x)]... mouth ...
14[...] x [...]

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