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YOS 11, 05 (P274696)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | YOS 11, 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | P274696 |
| Museum no. | YBC 04616 |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain |
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 | {d}a-nu ir-hi-a-am ša-me-e ša-mu-u₂ er-ṣe-tam ul-⸢du-nim⸣ | Anu, who created me, my name is Eršum, |
| 2 | er-ṣe-tum u₂-li-id bu-ša-am bu-šum u₂-li-id lu-hu-ma-a-am | (Sum) The eršûtu-demon, the būṣu, the luḫuma (demon) (Akk) The lamentation priest, the bull (said) “It is enough, it is enough! It is enough!" |
| 3 | lu-hu-mu-um u₂-li-id zu-ba zu-⸢ub⸣-bu u₂-li-id tu-ul-tam | luḫum’um means “to bind, līd ṭa₂-ebû (means) to bind. |
| 4 | tu-ul-tum dumu-munus {d}gu-la lu-ul-lu-um-tam lu-ub-bu-ša-at da-⸢mi⸣ ha-ap-ra-at | “Tultum, daughter of Gula, is a lullumtam-demon, she is the one of the goddesses who is torn out. |
| 5 | a-[...]-LU da-mi ṣe-eh-ri-im U₂ GA el-li-a-am i-ni-i-šu | (Sum) ... (Akk) I want to utter a supplication to him(?) |
| 6 | id-di ši-ip-tam {d}⸢da-mu u₃⸣ {d}gu-la u₂-ne₂-ra-[...] iṭ-bu-uh-šu-nu x [x] a x [x] x HI [...] | The šīptam offerings of Edamu and Gula he presented to them |
| 7 | ip-te pi₂-i-šu iṣ-ṣa-bat tu-la-a-am iš-ši-i-ma i-ni-šu i-[...] | He opened his mouth, he seized the life of him, and his word ... |
| 8 | ši-ip-tum u₂-ul ia-a-tum ši-pa-at {d}da-mu u₃ {d}gu-la | My lips are not mine, the lips of Damu and Gula |
| 9 | i-nu-ma {d}gu-la il-li-ku mu-tu-tam kal-bu il-li-ku wa-ar-ki-i-ša | When Gula went, the young man went, after her |
| 10 | tu-li-a-tum i-dam ia-ši-im zu-ub-bu u₃ ṣu₂-hu-um ša il-li-ku wa-ar-ki-ša i-nu-ma {d}suen iš-tu nibru{ki} u₂-ṣi-a-am | the Tullītum he erected. I am dead and ill. After that when Sîn brought me out of Nippur |
| 11 | u₂-wa-aš-še-er [zu]-⸢ub⸣-ba-am u₃ ŋir₂-tab a-na qa₂-qa-qa₂-di-im | he shall remove the ziggurat and the birtab-vessel to the ground |
| 12 | ṣe-eh-rum la i-di-a-am mu-ru-us-su la i-di-a-am AB-NI-HI-šu ⸢ša i⸣-ZI-KI-šu | (If) he does not know a ṣbeḫrum-plant, (or) his urušu-plant (and) his abnīḫu-plant: his ēša-plant and his i’ezi-plant |
| 13 | ak-nu-uk ṭup-pa-am u₃ ha-ZI-a-am ši-pi-a-tim ša mu-hi-i-šu ša al-la-tum i-ra-am-mu-šu | I have sealed the tablet and the ḫašûm-offerings, the debts of his man and the debt of alātum. |
| 14 | i-di-a-am a-na be-ri-tu tu-li-id ši-ip-tum u₂-ul ia-tum ši-pa-at {d}gu-la | (Sum) I am the one who knows (what) to do(?) (Akk) You know (what to do) in the middle (of the world), but I am not (the one who sees) the eye of Gula |
| r | ||
| 15 | x x tu-ut-ki-in-ti-ka-ak mu-ru-tu-ut-ki-en-ki-si-ik | Tutki-intikak, Uruki-enkisik, |
| 16 | [x x] tu-ut-ki-en-za-ra-ak hu-ul-tu-ut-ki-in-ki-si-ik-na | ... Tutkienzarak and Ḫultienkisikna |
| 17 | [x x x] ki-en-si-im-ti-ik-na | ... of Sumer |
| 18 | [x x] za-ki-en-maš-ti-ik-na hu-uh-tu-tu-ut-ki-in-hu-tu-uk-na | ... your zakīnmaštuknu, your ḫtutkunu |
| 19 | [x] x ri-u₂-ku-u₂-a-bi-ni-in-hu-uh₂-pa-ak-ti tu₆ en₂ e₂-nu-ru | ... Rīku-abīni-inḫuhpakti, incantation of the Enuru temple |
| 20 | zi-iz-zi-ri-ik za-ba-ar-ri-ik | “Favorable, propitious one, |
| 21 | ri-ša-am ri-ša-am ti-la-ri ša-am-ri ša-am-na-pi-ri-ša-a-am | “Rīšam, rîm of life, ṣāru, Šam-napīrīḫam, |
| 22 | in-ni-du-ri-di na-ru-di-hu-di tu₆ en₂ e₂-nu-ru | (Sum) The one who screams, the one who shouts (Akk) He shouts, he shouts. Incantation-formula |
| 23 | {d}namma me-en {d}namma me-en {d}namma dumu agrun-ka me-en | You are Namma, you are Namma. You are the son of Agrun. |
| 24 | [e₂ kukku₅-še₃] a-ba hu-mu-da-ŋen ŋa₂-e abzu-ta [he₂-da-DU] | Who can be in the house of the kukku-demon? May he go out from the Abzu! |
| 25 | {ŋiš}[agrun-ta] gug₆ gu₂ gid₂-da-zu-[de₃] | In order to prolong the life of the pig from the agrun tree |
| 26 | [muš]-ŋir₂ e₂-ke₄ gu₂ ki-še₃ he₂-be₂-di-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | May the snake of the temple raise its neck to the ground |
| 27 | as-ku-up-pa-tum šu-te-ri-bi ma-re-e-ki | “Seize the ašuppātu-vessels, send them to me! |
| 28 | {d}asal-lu₂-hi dumu {d}en-ki i-ir-ru-ba-am | Asalluhi, son of Enki, entered. |
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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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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