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The defeat of Enutila, Enmešarra and Qingu
Neo-Babylonian mythological fragment about the defeat of divine enemies (print edition: W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths).
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| Designation | BM.47530 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | BM.47530 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Narrative |
| Findspot | find-spot unknown |
| CDLI no. | P497390 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 25 (21 with machine English) |
Machine draft. English generated by model atf-en-best-v2 (montycrypto/atf-to-english) (version d871547f92875415dbbc7f4a37fd65e35f8ac97d) on 2026-10-05, line by line from the ATF. Not a scholarly translation.
The transliteration is not reproduced here because the source (electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich) is not marked as republishable; read it at the source link above.
| Line | English (machine draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse | |
| 1' | ... Anu |
| 2' | he has sworn by the name of the sea, and he has sworn it. |
| 3' | They were frightened, the one of the sea wailing |
| 4' | In the middle of the night, in the middle of the night, |
| 5' | who is not the hero of the Apsu, their enemy |
| 6' | and a tamatite, a uqamtu-offering in their garments |
| 7' | ... of Nabu, he set up a scepter. |
| 8' | From Enutila the leader of the singers Ninurta |
| 9' | his... has taken, his sakku-offering |
| 10' | of Enmea has seen, his life |
| 11' | of his 7 sons, with the evil weapon he annihilated them. |
| 12' | ... he conquered them, he captured them, he was victorious |
| 13' | he strengthened, their scepter he made firm. Itar-Babili |
| 14' | (Property) of Qingu, the builder of the assembly of the Eguzalamah, whose utterances are pleasing |
| reverse | |
| 1' | |
| 2' | ...... |
| 3' | ...-ri |
| 4' | ...-li |
| 5' | ...-gan |
| 6' | ... its |
| 7' | ... his |
| 8' | ...... |
| 9' | |
| 10' | |
| 11' | |