The Unninnu-prayer of Nabu-shuma-ukin to Marduk
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 Finkel's initial edition from 1999 (for his copy, see →here), in consultation with the cited studies and translations, and, as of April 2024, in consultation with the available photographs, both here and at the link to the British Museum above. 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).
