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VS 17, 18 (P343038)
Incantation, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 18 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343038 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01284 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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 | {giš}ma-nu dim an-na {giš}ma-nu dim e₂-an-na | The boat of heaven, the boat of Eanna |
| 2 | ur₂-bi giggi na-nam pa-bi {giš}banšur an-na | Its base is indeed a liar, its surface is a table of heaven |
| 3 | AN mun-am₃ ugu giš i-ib₂-šu₂ | he will eat the malt on top of the wood |
| 4 | ki e-sir₂-ra-am₃ | it is the place of the esir |
| 5 | kaskal-ni sila izi ba-an-la₂ | his road was blazed with fire, |
| 6 | {d}geštin-an-na sila si-ig-ga-ra | For Geštinana, the one who shuts the streets |
| 7 | he₂-em-ma-da-dib-be₂ | may he pass by. |
| 8 | {d}dumu-zi ur₂ nita₃-dam tu-ra-am₃ | Dumuzi, the lap of a man is turned. |
| 9 | he₂-em-ma-da-dib-be₂ | may he pass by. |
| 10 | saŋ-tab-mu he₂-a hu-mu-un-ta-ab-ri | May it be smashed, may it be broken up. |
| 11 | saŋ-kal {d}nin-urta | regular offerings of Ninurta |
| 12 | hu-mu-un-ta-ab-ri | may he have mercy on him. |
| 13 | lu₂ hul-gal₂ asilal₄-la₂ igi-mu-⸢ta⸣ | The evildoer, the one of joy, before me. |
| 14 | ka-inim-ma {giš}ma-nu-kam | It is the wording of a manu-boat. |
| 15 | x x x-na | na; |
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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