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JCS 09, 009 (P274661)

Prayer, Old Babylonian, Umma · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

Designation	JCS 09, 009
ID	P274661
Museum no.	SMUI 1913.14.1465
Collection	Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Language	Sumerian; Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Prayer
Find spot	Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
Coordinates	31.6669, 45.8861

English translation

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Line	English
obverse 1	Constipation, fire,
obverse 2	vertigo, scorpion sting,
obverse 3	bad fall,
obverse 4	š. sickness, redness,
obverse 5	red boil, leprosy,
obverse 6	sweet appearance, putrid sore,
obverse 7	itch, bloody excrement,
obverse 8	chills, š. head disease,
obverse 9	and šaššaṭu disease:
obverse 10	from the ziggurat of heaven, they descended on us.
obverse 11	It made feverish the sheep and lambs.
obverse 12	It made jittery the child on the shoulder of the nurse.
obverse 13	Whom should I send and order
obverse 14	to the daughters of An, the 7and 7
obverse 15	whose containers are gold, whose pots
obverse 16	are pure lapis lazuli.
obverse 17	Let them take their containers of gold,
obverse 18	their pots of pure lapis lazuli.
obverse 19	Let them draw water of the pure seas
reverse 1	sprinkle so that it may extinguish
reverse 2	constipation,fire,
reverse 3	vertigo, scorpion sting
reverse 4	bad fall,
reverse 5	d. disease, redness,
reverse 6	red boil, leprosy,
reverse 7	sweet appearance,
reverse 8	putrid sore, itch
reverse 9	bloody excrement, chills,
reverse 10	š. head disease, šaššaṭa disease.
reverse 11	The holy incantation of Damu and Ninkarrak:
reverse 12	the incantation is not mine,
reverse 13	it is an incantation is of Ningirima,
reverse 14	Ea, (and) Asalluḫi;
reverse 15	what Ningirima knows,
reverse 16	let them take.

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Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
obverse
1	[si2-ik-ka-tum i]-sza#-tum
2	a-[szu-u2-um] zi#-iq-tum
3	mi-iq-tum s,e2-nu
4	sza-ma-gu sa-ma-nu
5	gi-ir-gi-szu s,e2-ni-tum
6	zi-mu ma-at-qum e-qe2-tum
7	ri-szi-tum ni-t,u3
8	szu-ru-pu-u2 sza-ak-ba-nu
9	u3 sza-sza-t,u2
10	isz-tu zi-qu2-ra-at sza-me-e ur-du-ni
11	uh2-ta-mi-it, i-me-ri ka-lu-mi
12	uh-ta-di#-<ir> s,u2-ha-re-e i-na pu-ud ta-ri-tim
13	ma-an-na lu-<usz>-pu-ur u3 lu-wa-ir
14	a-na ma-ra-at a-ni 7(disz@v) u3 7(disz@v)
15	sza ka-nu-szi-na _ku3-sig17_ ka-<ar>-pa-tu-szi-na
16	uq-nu-u2 el-lu
17	li-<il>-qi-a-ni ka-ni-szi-na sza ku3-sig17
18	ka-<ar>-pa-ti-szi-na sza uq-ni el#-li#
19	li-sa3-ba-ni me-e ta-me#-[tim] e-lu-ti
reverse
1	li-is-lu-ha li-bi-le-e
2	si2-ik-ka-tam i-sza-tam
3	a-sza-a zi-iq-ta
4	mi-iq-ta s,e2-na
5	du-ma-ga-am sa-ma-na
6	gi-ir-gi-sza s,e2-ni!-tam!
7	zi-ma ma-at-qa2-a
8	e-qi2-tam ri-szi-tam
9	ni-t,a szu-ru-pa-a
10	sza-ak-ba-na u3 sza-sza-t,a2
11	tu-tu _ku3_ sza {d}da-mu u3 {d}nin-ni-ka-ra-ak
12	szi-ip-tum u2-ul ia-a-tum
13	szi-pa-at {d}ni-gi-ri-ma
14	{d}en-ki {d}a-sa-lu2-hi
15	sza ni-gi-ri-ma i-du-ma
16	[li]-il-qu2-u2

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