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VS 17, 15 (P343035)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 15 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343035 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08340 |
| 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 ku₃-ga a šed₇-di-da ri-a | The pure water, the pure water ... |
| 2 | a buru₅{mušen} tir-ra-ka nu-gub-ba | In the water of the locusts of the forest that did not stand there, |
| 3 | še-er ku₃-ga-bi UŠ nu-dug₄-ga | Its pure rites are unfavourable |
| 4 | {id₂}idigna-ra ama dumu nun-na mi₂ dug₄-ga | For the Tigris, the mother, the princely son, cared for. |
| 5 | {d}en-ki-ta he₂-ri-kug-ge | may Enki bless you. |
| 6 | he₂-em-me-ri-sikil-la | may he purify you. |
| 7 | he₂-em-me-ri-dadag-ge | may he make it bright for you. |
| 8 | eme hul-gal₂ bar-še₃ he₂-em-ta-gub | May the evil tongue stand outside. |
| 9 | [a kug]-⸢ga⸣-am₃ a sikil-la-am₃ | It is water of the pure temple, it is pure water |
| 10 | [a] ⸢dadag⸣-ga-am₃ | it is the water of the “big-house-plant’ |
| 11 | a agrun-na-ke₄ | the water of the Agruna |
| 12 | inim kug-ga-ni na-de₅-ga | his silver word to be sworn |
| 13 | a ku₃ {d}en-ki lu₂ sikil-la-ka | holy water of Enki, the pure man |
| 14 | hu-mu-un-sikil hu-mu-un-dadag | May he purify, may he cleanse. |
| 15 | ka-inim-ma a-gub₂-ba-kam | It is the wording of a hymn. |
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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