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BM.141781 (ebl:BM.141781)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM.141781 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.141781 |
| Museum no. | BM.141781 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 10 | Father Niniku, the god who establishes the foundations, |
| obverse 8 | He is a young man, his life is long, his eyes are dark. |
| obverse 17 | In his mighty battle he rule the heavens and the earth. |
| reverse 23' | My lord, my lord, my lord, the warrior Marduk, who in his strength made great |
| obverse 35 | In the threshing floor of his dining hall he made a fitting thing resplendent for the world. |
| reverse 19' | above him, the shepherd, the awe-inspiring, |
| reverse 27' | [Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it? |
| obverse 1 | Ere, if it is a liar, who is exalted, Igigi |
| reverse 24' | It is his strong one, the lord, my lord, |
| obverse 21 | To the many gods, the wide-spread one, the exalted one, the wise one, |
| reverse 15' | The scepter of the Igigi and Anunnaku gods, the lamassu and ga-anzir |
| obverse 25 | he sat down and kissed his hand to his words. Igi-gi |
| obverse 36 | [(As for)] the palace of heaven and earth, the one who provides for him, the one who carries out the sacrificial sheep, the one who carries out the sacrificial sheep, the one who carries out your name Marduk, |
| obverse 12 | The great god whose divine radiance is pure, whose name I named. |
| reverse 9' | ... perfect among your pure hands, |
| obverse 19 | The pious oath that my lord gave to him is all right. The gods of heaven and earth |
| reverse 20' | The pure prince, the lord of scepter(s), who in the midst of his head is adorned, |
| reverse 8' | ... from the one who removes the great sea, Gira... |
| obverse 6 | Marduk, you are among the gods. Be satisfied! |
| obverse 13 | the lord of the gods, the leader of heaven and earth, |
| reverse 18' | who had abandoned him, who had ruled all of the lands, |
| reverse 25' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 13' | who, like his name, in Duku, the pure place, became pure, to be pure, |
| reverse 7' | ... your..., the father who engendered you, grew furious like a lion. |
| obverse 3 | .................. |
| reverse 21' | The shepherd, the one who establishes everything, who establishes the sanctuaries of heaven and earth, your lord, |
| obverse 15 | As for the one who is constantly attentive to his work, who is constantly attentive to his work, |
| obverse 14 | The king, the one who carries out his sin, the one who carries out the rites, |
| obverse 18 | Your name: "Ashur, creator of the gods, lord of the totality of heaven," |
| obverse 24 | They killed him, killed him in lordly majesty, and took him to the kingship of all. |
| reverse 12' | O Marduk, lord who dwells in Esagil, the house of abundance, kingship |
| reverse 31' | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| obverse 9 | He did not honor him as he deems best. He did not honor the rites. |
| obverse 11 | creation of Damgalnuna, prince, supreme mother of the gods, |
| obverse 29 | Who enlarges the gods, who protects the creations, who establishes justice, |
| obverse 34 | ... they will turn, they will be frightened, they will die. |
| obverse 2 | The one who loves justice, the one who resides in the midst of the sea, |
| obverse 23 | Your name, Dagan, the lord of allure, who with his mighty name is unrivaled |
| reverse 14' | azu, whose exalted command goes before him, is the scepter of his mouth. |
| obverse 26 | and the Anunnaki, his ally, he smote the rebellious, the great heavens. |
| obverse 31 | (As for) the awe-inspiring radiance of all of it, the one who resides in his hand, the one who carries out the great deeds, the one who removes your hands, Marduk, |
| obverse 27 | (As for) the one who removes his chariot from the wide underworld, the name of Marduk |
| reverse 3' | The Apsu rejoices, all the great gods praise his command. |
| reverse 17' | Enbilulu, the lord of decisions, the all-knowing, the one who establishes light, |
| reverse 30' | I wrote and collated it in tablets. |
| obverse 4 | Beloved of the sage of the gods, |
| obverse 32 | Your hands, Addu, the lord of the heavens, who in the midst of battle |
| obverse 22 | O lord, foremost of the universe, king of the gods, chosen of Marduk, |
| reverse 29' | the wisdom of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards the shrines, as many as there are |
| reverse 1' | ... Lugaldimmerankia, who in his mighty name, the lord, has made supreme, for kingship |
| obverse 16 | The hero Marduk, who in the face of heaven and netherworld is a frightened one, |
| reverse 5' | Whose kingship is supreme, exalted, exalted, exalted, |
| obverse 33 | he has guarded his own life, he enters the heavens and the netherworld. |
| reverse 10' | O lord, exalted one, whose lord has no rival, |
| reverse 22' | Lord coming out, hero Asalluhi, mighty god, who makes the god rejoice, lord coming out |
| reverse 26' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave great wisdom, |
| obverse 30 | (As for) the one who, at the beginning of his reign, the heavens and earth, daily Anu and Enlil rejoiced over me. |
| reverse 2' | ... he smote, he who dwells in the great dais, he smote, and performed his work. |
| reverse 4' | O Marduk, the great god, who loves justice (and) loves justice, I want to... |
| reverse 6' | ... his... greatly suited to Gira, your lord, may he be afraid. |
| obverse 7 | The lord of his warriors is entrusted to his cultic rites. |
| reverse 11' | Asalluhi, light of the universe, lord, creator of the people, sage of god and man |
| obverse 28 | Niniku, the one who gives birth to all of his name, |
| reverse 16' | whose utterance the gods uttered to his utterance, |
| obverse 5 | The lord who strives after me, who reveres the gods, |
| reverse 28' | Whoever among the kings who came before me does not have a writing-board, |
| obverse 20 | whose limbs are adorned with splendor, whose radiance is supreme, |
| obverse 37 | your name: Nanna, the one who makes the month pleasant, the one who makes the people rejoice, the one who illuminates the darkness |
Sources & licences
- 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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