Akkadian Prayer Miscellany

Friday, May 21, 2021

Akkadian Prayer Miscellany

[First posted in AWOL 11 June 2018, updated 21 May 2021]

Akkadian Prayer Miscellany
Alan Lenzi, University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA)

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)

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