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VS 17, 12 (P343032)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 12 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343032 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08341 |
| 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 | ⸢eš₃⸣-ta eš₃ ku₃-ga-am₃ im-ma-šeŋ₃-šeŋ₃ | From the ešu’e, the holy shrine, he came out. |
| 2 | a-ab-ba niŋ₂-dagal-⸢la⸣ dub₃ im-ma-an-⸢nir⸣ | In the sea he heaped up heaps of grain. |
| 3 | ab-ba im-tu-ud gi im-tu-ud | The elder gave birth, the young woman gave birth. |
| 4 | niŋ₂-bun₂-na{ku₆} im-ma-ni-in-tu-ud | he gave birth to a nibunna fish |
| 5 | saŋ-ŋa₂-na muš-gin₇ murgu-na sig₄ u₃-šub-ba-[gin₇] | Like a snake on his neck, on his back like a brickwork that has been plundered |
| 6 | šag₄ su₃-na sar-ra-sar-ra-am₃ | It is the šuna field of scribal art |
| 7 | šu ŋir₃-bi-a pisan he₂-a-aka-e-de₃ | May the hand of the birbi-demon be grasped in the basket |
| 8 | niŋ₂-bun₂-na{ku₆} {giš}banšur hu-mu-un-dim₂ | I fashioned a nibunna fish on a table |
| 9 | {giš}banšur hu-mu-un-sikil | may he clean the table |
| 10 | lugal-la hu-mu-un-zil₂ lugal-la hu-mu-un-sikil | May he purify the king, may he clean the lord. |
| 11 | lu₂-ulu₃ dumu dingir-ra-na hu-mu-un-zil₂ | May a man, the son of his god, raise up. |
| 12 | i₃ gig udug hul dim₂-ma | bitter oil, evil udug-demon |
| 13 | nig₂-gig nig₂-AK-gin₇ me-da-an-zal | I will spend the day with him like a sin. |
| 14 | [a]-gin₇ ki-še₃ mi-ni-ib₂-sur | How did he spread it out to the ground |
Sources & licences
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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)
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