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VS 10, 187 (P342995)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 10, 187 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342995 |
| Museum no. | VAT 06514 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. 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) |
|---|---|---|
| i' | ||
| 1ʾ | [...] x | |
| 2ʾ | [...] x-la | ... ... |
| 3ʾ | [...] x-ŋal₂ id₂-da | ... on the river |
| 4ʾ | [...] KA a | ... ... |
| 5ʾ | [...]-⸢mi⸣-in-de₂-a | ... he had brought to me |
| 6ʾ | [...] x na₈-a | ... drinking ... |
| 7ʾ | [...]-mi-in-im₂-ma | ... he named it |
| 8ʾ | [...]-da gub-ba-zu | When you stand with ... |
| 9ʾ | [...]-⸢ki⸣-ga-kam | It is of ...-Ega |
| 10ʾ | [...] x a₂ aŋ₂ a DIŠ | ... labor, wages |
| 11ʾ | [...]-⸢ki⸣-ga-kam | It is of ...-Ega |
| 12ʾ | [...] mu-e-ši-in-gi₄-in | ... you return |
| 13ʾ | [...] x sa₁₀-sa₁₀ | ... buys |
| 14ʾ | [...] {d}en-ki-ke₄ | ... of Enki |
| 15ʾ | [...]-⸢in⸣-gi₄-in | I will return to you |
| 16ʾ | [...] ⸢sa₁₀⸣-sa₁₀ | ... buying a house |
| ii' | ||
| 1ʾ | a ME igi [...] | ‘moonrise to sunset’ (ideal) first appearance in the east |
| 2ʾ | a en-e [...] | Woe, the lord |
| 3ʾ | {d}en-ki-ga [...] | Enki |
| 4ʾ | he₂-em-kug-ge | may he cut off. |
| 5ʾ | he₂-em-sikil-e | may he purify. |
| 6ʾ | he₂-em-dadag-ge | may he be bright. |
| 7ʾ | eme hul-ŋal₂ | evil tongue |
| 8ʾ | bar-še₃ he₂-em-ta-gub | may he stand outside. |
| 9ʾ | ka-inim-ma a kar sa₁₀-sa₁₀-da-kam | It is the incantation for buying water from the harbor. |
| 10ʾ | en₂ e₂-nu-ru | Incantation: Enuru |
| 11ʾ | kar si-sa₂ kar abzu | The righteous quay, the Abzu |
| 12ʾ | kar kug kar {d}en-ki-ga | the holy harbor, the harbor of Enki |
| 13ʾ | šag₄-ga-ta a im-ma-ra-x | From the reedbed ... water |
| 14ʾ | HAR NIG₂ DU₃ im-ma-ra-x | He ... the ring of the property. |
| 15ʾ | kar si-sa₂ kar abzu [x] za x | The righteous quay, the Abzu ... |
| 16ʾ | kar kug kar {d}en-ki-ga x x | The holy harbor, the harbor of Enki |
| 17ʾ | ⸢šag₄-ga⸣-ta a im-ma-ra-[x] | He poured water from the šaĝ-vessel |
| 18ʾ | [...] x [...] | |
| iii' | ||
| 1ʾ | x [...] | |
| 2ʾ | peš₁₀ [...] | The peš-priest |
| 3ʾ | x {d}en-[...] | En- |
| 4ʾ | {d}nanše [...] | Nanše |
| 5ʾ | niŋ₂ IGI x [...] | (If) he sees ... . |
| 6ʾ | niŋ₂-⸢gig⸣ [...] | Ni’egig priestess |
| 7ʾ | niŋ₂ IM [...] | ... fear |
| 8ʾ | lu₂ x [...] | A man ... |
| 9ʾ | lu₂ [...] | ... man |
| 10ʾ | x [...] | |
| 11ʾ | x [...] | |
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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