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TMH 06, 20 (P273907)
Incantation, Ur III, Nippur · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | TMH 06, 20 |
|---|---|
| ID | P273907 |
| Museum no. | HS 2315 |
| 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 | ||
| 1 | zu₂-lum | dates |
| 2 | {ŋiš}peš₃ | a kind of plant |
| 3 | {ŋiš}hašhur | a fruit tree |
| 4 | {ŋiš}bar₃ | |
| 5 | {ŋiš}ŋeštin had₂ | a kind of grape |
| 6 | {ŋiš}|U.KIB| | |
| 7 | še {ŋiš}ha-lu-ub₂ | barley of halūb-plant |
| 8 | u₃ e-ri₈-na {u₂}munzer-ra dil-bi u₃-du₇-gaz | and the erinnu-plants, a single juniper he smashed. |
| 9 | du₃-a-bi teš₂-a u₃-ub-sig₁₀ | Its construction is perfect in its own right |
| 10 | ud-te-ta a u₃-ub-sub₆ | At that time, I bathed. |
| 11 | ŋi₆-ba-a-ka | in the river |
| 12 | {u₂}|GA₂×AN|MAŠ-KASKAL{sar} | a type of grass |
| 13 | {u₂}šakirₓ(|GIŠGAL×NI.GA|)ra | juniper |
| 14 | ŋiš-gi | reed |
| 15 | LAGAB{ku₆} | a kind of fish |
| r | ||
| 16 | igi {u₂}|KI.KAL| | before a plant |
| 17 | numun {ŋiš}asal₂ | seed of juniper |
| 18 | ŋi₆-ba-a-ka | in the river |
| 19 | a-ra₂ diš-ta-am₃ ka-ne₂ bi₂-DU | He opened his mouth to speak a second time. |
| 20 | a-bi i₃-na₈-na₈ | its water he drinks. |
| 21 | AK-AK uš₇ ri-a-kam | AK-AK means “to be a slave.’ |
Sources & licences
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- 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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