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VS 17, 14 (P343034)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 14 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343034 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08403 |
| 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 | a hur-sag a-ŋi₆ nam-na | Water of the mountain range, water of the aŋi river |
| 2 | eš₃ absu-ta lu₂ dab-ba la₂-a | From the shrine Absu a person seized |
| 3 | {d}en-bi-lu-lu lu₂ dug₃-ga ri-a | Enbilulu, the good man, |
| 4 | ⸢en⸣-ki nin-ki idim dug₃ ŋar-ra | E-en-e-ki, your mistress, a good clay vessel |
| 5 | [x x x] šur-ra | ... in the future |
| 6 | a ⸢sa₁₀⸣-sa₁₀ absu-ta e₃-a | “Bring out the water from the esa-vessel! |
| 7 | a ⸢bar-še₃⸣ ku₃-ga-am₃ naŋa bar-⸢še₃⸣ sikil-la-am₃ | It is water of the holy ebarše temple, it is the pure nadītu temple |
| 8 | a sa₁₀ naga ku₃-ga-ta du-a | from the sale of water and pure water carried off, |
| 9 | idim niŋ₂-giggi-ba-ke₄ ga nu-dug₄-ga | The one who does not eat milk by himself, |
| 10 | a tur₃-gin₇ me-nun-e gar-ra | Like water in a cowshed, the prince placed it. |
| 11 | a-a dug₄-ga {d}en-ki-ga | the good father, Enki |
| 12 | lu₂-ulu₃ dumu dingir-[ra-na] | a man, son of his god |
| 13 | a-bi-gin₇ he₂-em-[ku₃-ge] | like its father may he purify. |
| 14 | naga-bi-gin₇ he₂-em-[sikil-e] | may he purify like its water |
| 15 | ku₃ sag₉-ga-gin₇ mu-sir₂-ra [x x x] | Like a good silver, a scepter ... |
| 16 | zabar-ra-gin₇ niŋ₂ KA DU [x x x] | Like a bronze ... |
| 17 | {d}utu agrun-na-ta [x x x] | Šamaš from the cella |
| 18 | igi nig₂-sa₆-ga-ni he₂-[em-ku₃-ge] | may he purify his good eyes |
| 19 | inim {d}en-ki-ke₄ ⸢dadag⸣-[ge-de₃] | by the command of Enki to the Edadag temple |
| 20 | [tu₆] ku₃ {d}asar-lu₂-hi [x x x] | pure incantation of Asalluhi ... |
| 21 | [ka]-inim-ma a sa₁₀-sa₁₀-[kam] | Wording for buying water. |
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)
- 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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