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VS 17, 16 (P343036)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 16 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343036 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08358 |
| 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 | gi gal gi gid₂-da gi giš-gi kug-ga | The great reed, the long-lasting re[ed], the pure Ŋešree |
| 2 | gi bar gi-a {gi}en₃-bar | “Reed, the outer reed is a ... enbar, |
| 3 | gi zid gi dug₃-ga | the true reed, the good re[ed] |
| 4 | gi {d}namma gi {d}⸢nanše⸣ | Reed of Namma, reed (of) Enansve |
| 5 | gi {d}en-ki gi {d}asar-lu₂-hi | the reed of Enki, Asalluhi— |
| 6 | dumu {d}en-ki-ga | son of Enki |
| 7 | gi sikil na-de₅-ga | The pure reed is to be carried away. |
| 8 | geštug₂-gin₇ he₂-[gal₂] | like a ear, abundance |
| 9 | he₂-ku₃ he₂-sikil he₂-⸢dadag⸣ | May it be pure, may it be clean! May it shine forth! |
| 10 | a-gub₂-ba {d}nin-⸢girim₃⸣ | stationed, Ningirim |
| 11 | abgal ku₃ šu sikil-la bi₂-⸢in⸣-[gar] | The holy abgal placed his pure hand |
| 12 | ka-inim-ma gi-šul-hi a-gub₂-ba-⸢ka⸣ | Incantation formula: reed bundles of 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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