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VS 17, 11 (P343031)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 11 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343031 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08356 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ga-nam ur-saŋ-ŋa₂-am₃ ga-nam ur-sag nu-ga-am₃ | “Woe, hero, woe, the hero is not there! |
| 2 | šu min ŋal₂ dingir-re-ne-ke₄ | Hand of the second one of the gods |
| 3 | an-gin₇ he₂-gal₂ im-gur₃-ru ki-gin₇ im-gur₃-ru | Like heaven, abundance trembles, like earth shakes. |
| 4 | a-ab-ba-gin₇ nam-gar₃ gur₃-ru | like the sea, carrying a trade deficit, |
| 5 | mušen dingir-re-e-ne dug₄-ga he₂-duh-e | May the snake of the gods be smashed. |
| 6 | {d}asar-lu₂-hi igi im-ma-an-sig₁₀ | Asalluhi looked at him. |
| 7 | a-a-ni {d}en-ki-ra e₂-e ba-ši-in-kur₉ gu₃ mu-na-de₃-e | For his father Enki, he entered the house and spoke to him. |
| 8 | a-a-mu ga-nam ur-saŋ-ŋa₂-am₃ ga-nam ur-sag nu-ga-am₃ | I am indeed my father, I am a hero, but the hero is not there. |
| 9 | a-ra₂ min-kam-ma-aš u₃-ub-dug₄-ga | It is the second time that I have been satisfied |
| 10 | a-na ib₂-be₂-en-na-bi nu-e-zu a-na ba-ni-ib₂-⸢be₃⸣-[en-(na)] | What is it that you do not know? What does it know? |
| 11 | {d}en-ki-ke₄ dumu-ni {d}asar-lu₂-hi mu-na-ni-ib₂-gi₄-gi₄ | Enki answered his son Asalluhi: |
| 12 | [dumu-mu] a-na ⸢nu⸣-e-⸢zu⸣ [a-na a-ra-ab]-⸢dah⸣-e | my son to Enū-ezû, to Arabbaḫ |
| 13 | {d}asar-lu₂-hi a-na nu-[e-zu a-na] a-ra-ab-dah-e | Asalluhi, what does not know, what can I learn? |
| 14 | [nig₂] ŋa₂-e zu-a-mu za-e in-ga-[e-zu] u₃ za-e [x x x]-ba | That which I know, you know, and you ... |
| 15 | [ŋen]-na dumu-mu buru₅{mušen} an sig₇-ga šu um-me-⸢ti⸣ | The lord, the son of the raven, the one of the yellow-green heavens, hand of Ummeti-e23 |
| 16 | lu₂-ulu₃ dumu dingir-ra-na u₃-me-ga₂-ga₂ | The man, the son of his god, will set it. |
| 17 | {d}udug hul-gal₂-zu bar-še₃ he₂-em-ta-gub | May your evil udug-demon stand outside. |
| 18 | {d}lama₂-sa₆-ga he₂-mu-e-da-su₈-su₈-ge-eš | May they stand with Lama-saga |
| 19 | {d}en-ki me-teš₂ he₂-a-i-i | Enki, may he be merciful. |
| 20 | tu₆ en₂ e₂-nu-ru | Incantation: Enuru |
| 21 | ka-inim-ma mušen-a-kam | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer |
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