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Fascinated by a text known as the "Dialogue between Assurbanipal and Nabû" (SAA 03, 013), and ended up making several excerpt copies. This one's from line 20-22.
see translation in the thread
#cuneiform #inscription #ancient #language #literature #tablet #assyrian #King #read
"Please, Nabû, do not abandon me! My life is written before you, my soul is deposited in the lap of Mullissu. Please, powerful Nabû, do not abandon me among those who wish me ill!"
For full text, see: oracc.org/saao/P313430
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"As soon as he sat down on his haunches sleep was wafting over him like a fog. Ūta-napišti spoke to her, to his wife: 'See the fellow who demanded life! Sleep is wafting over him like a fog.'"
#cuneiform #akkadian #literature #ancientmesopotamia #archaeology #language #Homework
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ki-ma áš-bu-ma
ina bi-rit pu-ri-di-šú
šit-tu ki-ma im-ba-ri
i-nap-pu-uš eli-šú
{m}UD-napišti ana šá-ši-ma
izakkar ana mar-ḫi-ti-šú
am-ri {lú}eṭla
šá i-ri-šú ba-la-ṭu
šit-tu ki-ma im-ba-ri
i-nap-pu-uš eli-šú
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What's your favourite #quote from Gilgameš? Mine's
"The lady Ištar looked covetously on the #beauty of Gilgameš:
'Come, Gilgameš, you be the bridegroom!
Grant me your fruits, I insists!
You shall be my husband and I will be your wife!'"
#quoteoftheday #FlirtyVibes #Diva #Queen
(1) As #ParisFashionWeek is coming to a close, here is a boy from 3000+ years ago throwing #shade at his mother for not having provided him with garments good enough to stand tall among his peers:
(see thread for the transliteration and translation)
#fashion #style #fabulous
(4) Translation and Transliteration as seen in: Veenhof, Klaas R. 2005. Letters in the Louvre. Altbabylonische Briefe in Umschrift Und Übersetzung, Heft 14. Leiden: Brill. pp 156-7.
Cuneiform manuscript TCL 18, 111 (P387407). Museum Number AO 08372 (Louvre, Paris)
(5) Drawn based on a photograph and line art of the tablet, accessible via CDLI, cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/art…
This #Barbie is World's first named author.
#BarbieTheMovie #enheduana #poetry #sumerian #mesopotamia #blockbuster
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For those wanting to get into ancient Near Eastern languages, @CAScotia has an online Summer School starting in July, offering Sumerian, Ugaritic, Egyptian, and more!
This (Šarru-)Ken is figuring it out how to take control of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin.
#Barbie #BarbieTheMovie #Ken #Akkad #Babylon #Mesopotamia #ancient #film #assyriology
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📣New job alert📣 Teaching Associate in Assyriology (part time, fixed term)
Deadline: 15 April 2023
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jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38965/
Definitely the most ambitious #project so far for me: the first 42 lines of Column 1, #Chicago Prism (Sennacherib 022, ex 1).
#Akkadian #inscription #Archaeology #exercise #ancient #Languages #Assyria #booktok #Homework #Mesopotamia #Assyriology #calligraphy #muscle #pain
Recent #cuneiform #exercises on #industrialgrade clay, with Enūma eliš Tablet IV, lines 3 & 4 on repeat 🥲
#cry #Babylonian #Mesopotamia #creation #myth #Archaeology #ancient #languages #school #booktok
