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Akkadian Prayer Miscellany

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

About the Project

The Akkadian Prayer Miscellany is a place for me to post work I've done on a selection of Akkadian prayers. As the name suggests, the project contains a mixture of different kinds of prayers from different places and times. The one unifying element is that all of the texts are in Akkadian. As working on this site is not my top research priority (rather, see →here), additions will accumulate rather slowly.

Go to the project →GitHub repository for ATF files of all completed tablets.

The List of Prayers

Old Babylonian

Prayer to Anuna (PBS 1/1, 2 = CBS 19842) (June 8, 2018)
Letter-Prayer to Amurrum (AbB 12, no. 99 = BM 97298) (June 10, 2018)
Letter-Prayer to Ninmug (AbB 13, no. 164 = BM 103768) (June 12, 2018)
Letter-Prayer to a Personal God (AbB 9, no. 141 = YBC 4578) (June 6, 2020)
Lament: "The Man and His God" (AO 4462) (September 9, 2020)
Lament: "Ishtar-Baghdad" (IM 58424) (September 10, 2020)


Standard Babylonian

Ashurnaṣirpal’s Prayer to Ishtar (1880-07-19, 0152 + 1881-02-04, 0188) (February 3, 2020)
A Prayer to a Goddess (1879-07-08, 0050) (February 8, 2020)
The Unninnu-prayer of Nabu-shuma-ukin to Marduk (BM 40475) (July 3, 2020)
The Great Prayer to Nabu (K.2361+) (February 23, 2021)
The Lament of Ashurbanipal (K.891) (May 20, 2021)
Architectural Prayers at Dūr-Šarrukīn (March 30, 2023)


Neo-Assyrian

Righteous Sufferer's Prayer to Nabû (STT 1, no. 65 = SU 1952, 103) (January 15, 2020)