Zarpanītu goes down to the garden (K 5694)
Neo-Assyrian love lyric from the cult of Marduk and his consort Zarpanītu.
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| Designation | K.5694 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | K.5694 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Love |
| Provenience | Nineveh |
| Findspot | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
| CDLI no. | P396099 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 23 (23 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse? col 1' | |
| 1' | .... |
| 2' | Who... a fate... |
| 3' | May... look upon me and... |
| 4' | Zarpanitu went down to the garden, approached the garden |
| 5' | The guarantor |
| 6' | (If) ditto the gardener ditto the gardener |
| 7' | 'You are the one who... in the land of Sîn.' |
| 8' | The urida orchard, the... garden |
| 9' | of Bel of Babylon |
| 10' | Where I saw them, the qinnu-flour, the teeming bird, the apnu-bird |
| 11' | May the one who carries off the urbaqanu-disease be heard of by Bel like the killu-disease. |
| 12' | On behalf of the lord of Babylon, they have been snatched up. |
| reverse? col 2' | |
| 1' | ......... |
| 2' | ......... whose utterances |
| 3' | ... his... of her allies, |
| 4' | ... her........................................ |
| 5' | ...... its gate(?) does not |
| 6' | ... of the water he poured. |
| 7' | .....,...,...,...,...,...,... |
| 8' | The... of heaven and earth |
| 9' | ..., kaniku, kaniku, |
| 10' | ... his |
| 11' | ... your praise |