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Akkadian Prayer Miscellany

Alan Lenzi, University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA)

The Unninnu-prayer of Nabu-shuma-ukin to Marduk

tablet

This prayer is found on one tablet, BM 40474, housed in the →British Museum in London. Irving Finkel published an edition and study of the prayer in Finkel 1999 (→bibliography; →library). In 2011, Oshima produced another edition of the prayer for his monograph, Babylonian Prayers to Marduk: 95-96, 316-327 (→bibliography; →library). Other translations include Foster 2005: 852-856 (English) and Hecker 2013: 91-94 (German; TUAT n.f. 7; unavailable to me). The present transliteration is based on the published copy in Finkel 1999 in consultation with the cited studies. Collation with photographs will be undertaken in April 2024. Nota Bene: According to the Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Volumes IV–V, p. 447 (Leichty, Finkel, and Walker 2019), this tablet was initially published with the wrong Museum Number (BM 40475) and Accession Number (1881-4-28, 9).