A reading, published with its checks still open. A Vigslist translation.
A hymn to Nergal with the god's speech to the king — a built reading on K.8414 held for two doors: collation against Cagni's Erra edition, and the tablet's identity check.
Held, with its checks still open. The reading stands built and is held; its text is not printed on this page. No claim beyond the entry’s own stated posture is made here. The checks that would settle it are named below and are still open; the wording on this page claims nothing they have not settled.
A hymn to Nergal on K.8414. The reverse preserves a continuous divine speech — the god draws near to the king who calls to him in misery, goes before him, fells his enemies. The record’s bibliography is two discussion citations only (Borger’s Kuyunjik catalogue; CAD B 349b, a lexical citation). The record’s own note ventures “Erra?” for this fragment — if K.8414 is a witness of Erra and Išum, the composition stands in English (Foster (2005), pp. 880–911) and any first-English posture dies.
The reading stands built: 45 lines — 0 whole, ~24 part, ~21 fragments, 0 invented. Counts marked with ~ are the reading’s own approximations, printed as they stand.
First: collation against Cagni’s Erra edition (1969/1977), which exists in print only and has not been made. Second: the CDLI record reached under this tablet’s number (P397614) serves a fused record whose metadata and text belong to other tablets, so the tablet’s identity line cannot be written until the British Museum’s own collection record for K.8414 is eyeballed against the eBL record.
What would unlock it: the Cagni collation, and the identity check. Until both are done, the reading stays held and unprinted.
Held reading, K.8414. Its text is not printed here; the named checks above stand open. Published as a held entry 2026-10-23. A Vigslist translation.
Built 2026-10-23 from the Second Collection of the Vigslist translations program (October 23, 2026).
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