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MC 24, no. 88 (P556324)
Prayer, Late Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–100 BCE
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| Designation | MC 24, no. 88 |
|---|---|
| ID | P556324 |
| Museum no. | BM 034218 + BM 034334 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Late Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–100 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| col 1 9' | Beloved of Bl, your unuu priest |
| col 2 3' | among the sanctuaries of aurru, pre-eminent one of life |
| col 1 10' | May it be taken away from you, and may it be released. |
| col 2 10' | Unfavorable, unfavorable, evil, |
| col 2 6' | The one who has sinned, the one who does not bring a claim |
| col 1 8' | he smote a tidditu, he returned, he shall do it. |
| col 2 7' | whose divinity is full of guilt, |
| col 1 4' | He smashed his nose and cut off his nose. |
| col 1 7' | Marduk, you are my helper, return my life |
| col 2 4' | Who will not be negligent, who will not be negligent? |
| col 1 5' | O lord, you are merciful, return my life! |
| col 1 6' | They have sworn by the name of the king, my lord. |
| col 2 11' | good for the tiru and Kalla... |
| col 2 2' | Whose deed is destroyed, defiled in the land |
| col 2 1' | from the threshing floor to the threshing floor |
| col 1 11' | ...... |
| col 2 9' | You are a nasiqqû-demon, and his name is a reed-bed. |
| col 1 12' | 'May his cultic rites be performed properly, |
| col 2 8' | whose (personal) god does not have a claim, |
| col 2 5' | Whoever has been guarded, whether he is guilty, |
| col 1 13' | If he is a liar, he will recover from his guilt(?) |
| col 1 1' | If he does not know, he will die. |
| col 1 3' | He has not been able to withstand the storm, his ears are not loosened. |
| col 2 12' | ... the well-being of the prostitute enters... |
| col 1 2' | he smote, and to Nabali he smote him. |
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
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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