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TMH 06, 07b & 08 (P273898)
Incantation, Ur III, Nippur · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | TMH 06, 07b & 08 |
|---|---|
| ID | P273898 |
| Museum no. | HS 1573 |
| Collection | Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Jena, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1ʾ | ka id₂-gin₇ a-e ba-x x x x | Like the mouth of a river ... |
| 2ʾ | bid₃ saŋ ⸢i₃⸣-im-DIM₄-[x] | bid of E-im-DIM-x |
| 3ʾ | šag₄ {ŋiš}ig i₃-im-dim₂ | he fashioned a door for it |
| 4ʾ | {kuš}im x mu-kur₂-⸢e⸣ | he will change the sandals |
| 5ʾ | ŋiš-gi-na nam-lu₂-ulu₃-ke₄ | the scepter of humanity |
| 6ʾ | [...]-⸢gin₇⸣ gu₂ im-keš₂ | Like a ..., he shook his neck |
| 7ʾ | [...] x e₂-na x mu-[...] x | ... in his house ... |
| 8ʾ | [...] x-na | ... na |
| o ii | ||
| 1ʾ | x [...] | |
| 2ʾ | x [...] | |
| 3ʾ | ŋen-na [...] | “The lord |
| 4ʾ | sila₃-⸢ŋar⸣ [...] | Sila-ebar ... |
| 5ʾ | gi [...] | ... reed |
| 6ʾ | igi tur [...] | ... small eyes |
| o v | ||
| 1ʾ | ⸢KU⸣ [...] | ... ešku-plant |
| 2ʾ | ki x [...] | ... place |
| 3ʾ | lu₂ [...] | ... man |
| 4ʾ | ze₂ [...] | sweet ... |
| 5ʾ | uš₂-bi [...] | Its foundation ... |
| 6ʾ | lu₂ [...] | ... man |
| 7ʾ | ab₂ ⸢gan⸣ [...] | cow of the egan plant |
| 8ʾ | u₈ gan [...] | ... ewe |
| 9ʾ | ud₅ gam [...] | ... nanny goat |
| 10ʾ | en₂-e₂-⸢nu⸣-[ru] | En-e-nu’eru |
| 11ʾ | niŋ₂ mu x [...] | “Ni² year ... |
| o vi | ||
| 1ʾ | [...]-⸢zu⸣ | ...-ezu’e |
| 2ʾ | [...]-⸢ta⸣ eridu{ki}še₃ du-a-ni | When he went to the ... of Eridu |
| 3ʾ | [...]-a-na u₅-a-ni | His ..., his ... |
| 4ʾ | [...] gidimₓ(|NINDA₂×GI.IDIM|) hul | ... evil ghost |
| 5ʾ | ⸢piriŋ muš⸣-huš-a-ni-še₃ | The ‘piri’ of his scepter |
| 6ʾ | dug₃-ge ba-ši-ib₂-gi₁₆ | he returned it to its place. |
| 7ʾ | piriŋ muš-huš-a-ni-še₃ | whose spittle is a snake |
| 8ʾ | si bad-bad-da-bi {d}nin-a-zu | whose horns Ninazu |
| 9ʾ | gidimₓ(|NINDA₂×GI.IDIM|)ba ŋiri₁₆-da₅ saga₁₁ ba-ni-in-dug₄ | Its reed mats were good quality birida-flour |
| 10ʾ | muš šur₂ muš PA-še₃ x KA | ... snake |
| 11ʾ | {d}nin-a-zu muš inim [...]-⸢na⸣-dug₄ | Ninazu, the one who speaks a word(?) |
| l.e. | ||
| 12ʾ | [...] a-ra₂-mu dab-a-bi | ... of Arāmu, its utterance |
| 13ʾ | [...] ⸢ŋa₂⸣-ŋa₂-a | ... the e’eba-priests |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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