KAR 307 (P336234)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | KAR 307 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336234 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08917 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) |
| Coordinates | 35.4557, 43.2611 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa03 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
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| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [... is his ...] Tamarisk is his topknot. [......]. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [...] is his [...]. The palm frond is [his] whiskers. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [Cedar] is his [kne]es. The apple is his ankle bones. The snake is his penis. The harp is his hand. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [.......] his wings. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [...] is his [...]. The cat is the blood of his heart. The partridge is a drop of his heart's blood. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [...]... [is his ...]. The pig is his innards. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | The scorpion is his lip. The whet-stone is his tongue. The leek is the hair of his armpits. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | The drum is his lower jaw. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | The lion is his larger intestines. The dog is his smaller intestines. The raven is his mole. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | The poplar is [his] body. |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | The kettledrum is his heart. The date-palm is his back-bone. The reeds are his fingers. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | Silver is his skull. Gold is his sperm. |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | The thorn bush is his breast hair. The boxthorn is the hair of his groin. |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | His ear wax is lead. The fruit tree is his bone. |
| Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515 | The fish are his breasts. The figs are his .... Oil is his tears. |
| Obverse [15:16] o 1616–o 1616 | The bulrush is his nose mucus. |
| Obverse [16:17] o 1717–o 1717 | The dried dates are his flesh. The aromatic ... is [his] li[ps]. |
| Obverse [17:18] o 1818–o 1818 | [...] is the ... of his blood. The grapes are [his] eyeballs. |
| Obverse [18:19] o 1919–o 1919 | Ištar of Durna (= Nineveh) is Tiamat; she is the wet nurse of Bel. |
| Obverse [19:20] o 2020–o 2020 | She has [four eyes] and four ears. |
| Obverse [20:21] o 2121–o 2121 | Her upper parts are Bel, and her lower parts are Mullissu. |
| Obverse [21:22] o 2222–o 2222 | The Lady of Liburna (= Arbela) is the mother of Bel. |
| Obverse [22:23] o 2323–o 2323 | He gave her vegetables; alternatively, she is Antu and they make funerary offerings to Anu. |
| Obverse [23:24] o 2424–o 2424 | The Elamite chariot, which has no seat, carries inside it the corpse of Enmešarra. |
| Obverse [24:26] o 2525–o 2626 | The horses which are harnessed to it are the ghost of Anzû. The king who stands in the chariot is the warrior king, the lord Ninurta. |
| Obverse [26:27] o 2727–o 2727 | The ecstatic priest, who stands with him, pulled out the tongues of Anzû and holds them in his hand. |
| Obverse [27:28] o 2828–o 2828 | He hung the ladders of the house of Enmešarra on the wall |
| Obverse [28:29] o 2929–o 2929 | and woke up the sleeper. Taboo of Enmešarra. |
| Obverse [29:30] o 3030–o 3030 | The upper heaven of luludanitu stone is Anu's. He settled the 300 Igigi gods there. |
| Obverse [30:32] o 3131–o 3232 | The middle heaven of saggilmud stone is of the Igigi gods. Bel sits there in a high temple on a dais of lapis lazuli and has made a lamp of electrum shine there. |
| Obverse [32:33] o 3333–o 3333 | The lower heaven of jasper is of the stars. He drew the constellations of the gods on it. |
| Obverse [33:34] o 3434–o 3434 | He made the souls of mankind reside on the terra firma of the upper earth. |
| Obverse [34:35] o 3535–o 3535 | In the core of the middle earth he settled Ea, his father. |
| Obverse [35:36] o 3636–o 3636 | He did not distinguish [......]... rebellion. |
| Obverse [36:37] o 3737–o 3737 | In the core of the lower [earth] he shut up the 600 Anunnaki. |
| Obverse [37:39] o 3838– | [......]... [......] of jasper. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [The ...]... of muṣu stone on the horn is Tiamat. Bel defeated [her]. He [sm]ote her, established her destiny and split her into two parts like the fish of the drying place. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | The Tigris is her right eye. The Euphrates is her left eye. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | 40 double hours is the disc of the sun. 60 double hours is the disc of the moon. The inside of the s[un is Ma]rduk. The inside of the moon is Nabû. Inside the sun there is a viper, [his] .... Inside the m[oon] is his [mot]her. The dagger above the lion is of the hand [of ...]. |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | Meslamtaea is Marduk, who rises from and goes down to the underworld, because Aššur chased him into a hole and opened its gate. |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | The ... of the lord, the raven is his mole; it is the ghost of Enmešarra, (which) keeps crying: "Burn me, burn me!" |
| Reverse [10:12] r 1111–r 1212 | The wild ass is the ghost of Illil; the wolf is the ghost of Anu. B[el] made him roam the plain. The gazelles, his daughters, Bel made to roam the plain. |
| Reverse [12:16] r 1313–r 1616 | The dromedary is the ghost of Tiamat. Bel cut off her horns, clove her [fee]t and docked her tail. Bel vanquished her and displayed her to mankind, lest she be forgotten. Its name is tamriqātu, as it is said among the people: ētamar qātāia ("He learned from my example"). |
| Reverse [16:18] r 1717–r 1818 | The singed ox and sheep, which which they throw alive to the ground, are Qingu and [his] seven sons, when they were smitten. |
| Reverse [18:19] r 1919–r 1919 | The dove which they throw down, is Tiamat: they cast her down and kill her. |
| Reverse [19:23] r 2020–r 2323 | The king, who wears on his head a golden tiara from the inside of the temple and sits on a sedan chair, while they carry him and go to the palace, is Ninurta, who avenged his father. The gods, his fathers, decorated him inside the Ekur, gave him the sceptre, throne and the staff, adorned him with the splendour of kingship, and he went out to the mountain. |
| Reverse [23:25] r 2424–r 2525 | The cedar (resin) which they burn in front of them is the loose flesh of the evil gods; they smelled the scent and went into hiding. |
| Reverse [25:26] r 2626–r 2626 | Secret lore of the great gods. An initiate may show it to another initiate; the uninitiated may not see it. |
| Reverse [26:28] r 2727–r 2828 | Taboo of the great gods. Written and checked according to its original. It is a writing board like the original. |
| Reverse [28:30] r 2929–r 3030 | [Tablet] of Kiṣir-Aššur, exorcist of the temple of Aššur, son of Nabû-bessunu, exorcist of the temple of Aššur, [son] of Baba-šuma-ibni, the zabardabbu official of Ešarra. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
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| o | ||
| 1 | [x x x x {giš]}⸢ŠINIG⸣ qim-mat-su ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x]-MEŠ-šu₂ {giš}sa-ri SU₆-MEŠ-[šu₂] | |
| 3 | {[giš}e-re-nu bir]-⸢ka⸣-šu₂ {giš}HAŠHUR ki-ṣal-la-šu₂ MUŠ GIŠ₃-šu₂ {giš}ZA₃.MI₂ ŠU-⸢su⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x] ka-ap-pa-šu₂ | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x]-šu₂ SA.A MUD₂ ŠA₃-šu₂ MUŠEN{buru₅.}HABRUD.DA{mušen} ni-ti-ik MUD₂-MEŠ ŠA₃-šu₂ | |
| 6 | [x x] ⸢a x⸣ [x] ⸢ŠAH⸣ u₂-man-da-šu₂ | |
| 7 | ⸢GIR₂⸣.TAB NUNDUN-⸢su {na₄⸣}mu-ši-el-tu₂ EME-šu₂ {u₂}GA.RAŠ SIG₂.UZ₃ su-ha-ti-šu₂ | |
| 8 | [UD.KA.BAR]{ma}an-zu-u la-aš₂-hu KI.TA-u₂ | |
| 9 | UR.MAH HAR-MEŠ-šu₂ GAL-MEŠ UR.KU HAR-MEŠ-šu₂ TUR-MEŠ U₂.NAGA{mušen} ki-pil-šu₂ | |
| 10 | {giš}A.TU.GAB.LIŠ.A la-an-[šu₂] | |
| 11 | AB₂.DUB₂{li}li-su ŠA₃-šu₂ {giš}GIŠIMMAR GU₂.SIG₄-šu₂ GI-MEŠ ŠU.SI-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 12 | KUG.UD UGU-šu₂ KUG.GI ri-hu-su | |
| 13 | {giš}NIM SIG₂.UZ₃ GABA-šu₂ {u₂}GIR₂ SIG₂.UZ₃ kap-pa-la-te-šu₂ | |
| 14 | ŠE₃-e PI.2-MEŠ-šu₂ A.BAR₂ {giš}MES.GAM₃ GIR₃.PAD.DU-šu₂ | |
| 15 | ⸢KU₆⸣-MEŠ tu-la-⸢tu-šu₂⸣ {giš}MA-MEŠ {na₄}AB₂.GA-MEŠ-šu₂ I₃-MEŠ ER₂-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 16 | u₂-⸢ra⸣-ba-ni ni-tik u₂-ba-ṭe₂-e-šu₂ | |
| 17 | [u₂]-hi-ni UZU-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ {šem}x.U₂ šap-⸢te⸣-[e-šu₂] | |
| 18 | [x x] SI₄ zi-⸢ru-tu₂⸣ MUD₂-MEŠ-šu₂ {giš}GEŠTIN kak-kul-ti IGI.2-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 19 | {[d]}15 ša {uru}dur-na ti-amat ši-i UM.ME.GA.LA₂ ša₂ {d}EN ši-i-ma | |
| 20 | 04 IGI.2-⸢MEŠ⸣-ša 04 PI.2-MEŠ-ša | |
| 21 | ⸢AN.TA⸣-MEŠ-ša {d}EN KI.TA-MEŠ-ša {d}NIN.LIL₂ | |
| 22 | {d}NIN—{uru}LI.BUR.NA um-⸢ma⸣ ša {d}EN ši-i-ma | |
| 23 | ⸢SAR⸣-MEŠ iš-ru-ka-ši ša₂-niš an-tum ši-i-ma kis-pa a-na {d}a-num i-kas-si-pu | |
| 24 | {giš}GIGIR ša {kur}NIM.MA{ki} ša {giš}GU.ZA-ša₂ ia-aʾ-nu {lu₂}UŠ₂ ša {d}ME.EN.ŠAR₂.RA ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣ IL₂-ši | |
| 25 | {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ ša ina ŠA₃ ṣa-an-du ⸢GIDIM⸣ ša an-zi-i LUGAL ša₂ ina ŠA₃ {giš}GIGIR GUB-zu | |
| 26 | LUGAL qar-ra-du EN {⸢d⸣}MAŠ šu-u | |
| 27 | ša—še-hi ša KI-šu₂ GUB-zu EME-MEŠ ša an-⸢zi⸣-[i] ⸢ki⸣-i iš-du-dam-ma ina ⸢ŠU⸣.2-šu₂ u₂-kal | |
| 28 | {giš}I.DIB E₂ {d}EN.ME.ŠAR₂.RA ina ⸢E₂.SIG₄⸣ i-lul | |
| 29 | ṣal-lu id-ki NIG₂.GIG {d}EN.ME.ŠAR₂.RA | |
| 30 | AN-u₂ AN.TA-ti {na₄}⸢lu⸣-lu-da-ni-tu₂ ša {d}a-num 300 {d}5.1.1 ina ŠA₃ u₂-⸢še⸣-[šib] | |
| 31 | AN-u₂ MURUB₄-ti {na₄}sag-gil-mud ša {d}5.1.1 be-lum ina ŠA₃ BARAG.MAH ina ŠA₃-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 32 | i-na BARAG {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ u₂-šib {giš}bu-ṣi-<in> {na₄}el-me-ši ina ŠA₃ u₂-nam-mir | |
| 33 | AN-u₂ KI.TA-MEŠ {na₄}aš-pu-u ša MUL lu-ma-ši ša DINGIR-MEŠ ina UGU e-ṣir | |
| 34 | [ina] ⸢KALAG⸣.GA KI.TIM AN.⸢TA⸣ zi-qi-qu NAM.LU₂.U₁₈.LU ina ŠA₃ u₂-šar-bi-iṣ | |
| 35 | [ina KALAG].⸢GA⸣ KI.TIM ⸢MURUB₄⸣-tu {d}1 AD-šu₂ ina ŠA₃ u₂-še-šib | |
| 36 | [x x x x x]-⸢i⸣-šu₂ si-hu ul u₂-maš-ši | |
| 37 | [ina KALAG.GA KI].TIM KI.TA-tu₂ 600 {d}⸢a-nun-na-ki⸣ [ina] ŠA₃-bi e-ṣir | |
| 38 | [x x x x x x x x] bu ⸢x⸣ [x x x] ša₂ {na₄}aš-pu-u | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x] ⸢x x x⸣ ša {na₄}mu-ṣi ⸢ša⸣ UGU ⸢SI⸣ ti-amat be-lum ik-⸢mi⸣-[ši] | |
| 2 | [iṣ]-⸢bat⸣-si i-šim-ši ih-pi-ši-ma GIM KU₆-MEŠ maš-ṭe-e a-na 02-[šu₂] | |
| 3 | {id₂}HAL.HAL IGI.2 ⸢ZAG⸣-ša₂ {id₂}UD.KIB.NUN{ki} IGI.2 150-ša₂ | |
| 4 | 40 KASKAL.GID₂ NIGIN₂-rat {d}UTU 60 KASKAL.GID₂ NIGIN₂-rat {d}30 | |
| 5 | ša₂ ŠA₃ {d}⸢UTU⸣ {[d]}⸢AMAR⸣.UTU ša₂ ŠA₃ {d}30 {d}AG ina ŠA₃ {d}UTU ba-aš-mu bal-bal-⸢le⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃ {d}30 um⸣-ma-šu₂ GIR₂ ina UGU UR.MAH ša₂ ŠU [x (x)] | |
| 7 | {d}MES.LAM.TA.⸢E₃⸣.A {d}AMAR.UTU ša₂ a-na KI.TIM DUL.DU-u₂ DUL.DU | |
| 8 | aš₂-šu AN.ŠAR₂ a-na HABRUD ir-du-du-šu₂-ma ⸢KA₂⸣-šu₂ BAD-u₂ | |
| 9 | nam-bu-um-⸢ti⸣ EN U₂.NAGA.GA ki-pil-šu₂ | |
| 10 | GIDIM ša₂ {d}EN.ME.ŠAR₂.RA qi-ma-ni qi-ma-ni GU₃.DE₂-MEŠ | |
| 11 | {anše}⸢EDIN⸣.NA GIDIM ša₂ {d}BE UR.BAR.RA GIDIM ša₂ {d}a-num | |
| 12 | {d}⸢EN⸣ EDIN u₂-šar-pi-su MAŠ.DA₃-MEŠ DUMU.MI₂-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ be-lum ⸢EDIN⸣ u₂-šar-pi-si-na | |
| 13 | {anše}A.AB.BA GIDIM ti-amat {d}EN SI-MEŠ-ša₂ u₂-ka-šiṭ | |
| 14 | ⸢GIR₃⸣.2-MEŠ-ša₂ ik-kis o KUN-sa ⸢ik⸣-šiṭ | |
| 15 | be-lum ik-mu-ši-ma aš₂-šu la ma-še-i ⸢UN⸣-ME u₂-kal-lim | |
| 16 | tam-ri-qa-tu₂ ša₂ ina KA UN-MEŠ DUG₄.GA-u₂ e-ta-mar ŠU.2-a.a MU-šu₂ | |
| 17 | 01 GUD u₃ UDU.NITA₂-MEŠ ⸢IZI ša⸣ ana qaq-qa-ri TI-su-nu i-na-sa-ku-u-ni | |
| 18 | {d}qin-gu EN 07 DUMU-MEŠ-[šu₂] ⸢ki⸣-i SIG₇-MEŠ-ṣu | |
| 19 | TU{mušen} ša₂ i-na-⸢su⸣-ku ti-amat i-na-su-ku-nim-ma GAZ-MEŠ-u | |
| 20 | LUGAL ša TA qi₂-rib E₂.KUR AGA KUG.GI ina SAG.DU-šu₂ IL₂-šu-ma | |
| 21 | ina {giš}GU.ZA TUŠ-bu u i-na-aš₂-šu₂-šu₂-ma ana E₂.GAL DU-ku | |
| 22 | {d}MAŠ ša₂ ŠU.2 AD-šu₂ u₂-tir-ru DINGIR-MEŠ AD-MEŠ-šu₂ ina qi₂-rib E₂.KUR TEŠ₂-MEŠ-šu | |
| 23 | {giš}PA {giš}GU.ZA BALA SUM-šu₂ | |
| 24 | ME.LAM₂ LUGAL-u-ti u₂-za-ʾi-nu-šu-ma ana KUR E₃ {giš}ERIN ša₂ ina IGI-šu₂-nu i-qu-ud-du | |
| 25 | ši-ha-at UZU DINGIR-MEŠ HUL-MEŠ i-ri-ša₂ ⸢e⸣-ṣi-nu-ma pu-uz-ra-a-te im-me-du | |
| 26 | AD.HAL DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ ZU-u ZU-a li-kal-lim NU.ZU-u a.a IGI.LAL | |
| 27 | [NIG₂].GIG DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ GIM SUMUN-šu₂ ša₃-ṭir-ma ba-ri₃ | |
| 28 | PA-ṭu-u GIM SUMUN-ma | |
| 29 | [DUB] {1}ki-ṣir—aš-šur MAŠ.MAŠ E₂—AN.ŠAR₂ A {1}{d}PA—be₂-su-nu | |
| 30 | {[lu₂]}MAŠ.MAŠ E₂—AN.ŠAR₂ | |
| 31 | [DUMU {1}{d]}BA.⸢U₂⸣—MU—DU₃ UD.KA.BAR.DIB.BA E₂.ŠAR₂.RA | |
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