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VS 17, 20 (P343040)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 20 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343040 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08394 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian; qcu |
| 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 | mul me nin me ⸢an⸣-na | Star of the divine powers, lady of the cosmic powers of heaven and earth |
| 2 | nin-ti nam₂-il | and my mistress of life |
| 3 | di bar igi u₂ ku₃ ab si la hi me hi la | |
| 4 | hi si i ih hu se e eh ku₃ sa a am | |
| 5 | tu₆ en₂ e₂-nu-ru | Incantation: Enuru |
| 6 | ka-inim-ma izi šag₄-ga | Invocation for burning fire |
| 7 | giš₃ i₃-in-tuk ŋeštug₂-e i₃-in-dah-dah | He has beaten the wood, he has twisted the garment |
| 8 | pa si ⸢kur⸣ bi niŋ₂ ma-nu mušen geštug aka zig₃ | Its eškur temple is filled with fearsomeness, a snake rising from the ear of the mouth |
| 9 | šu pa [x x x] ŋiri₃ ni ma ug zi | Hand of a ... ..., <(what has he done?)> |
| 10 | šu igi [x x x] za-za ni za aka zi | Hand of ..., ... |
| 11 | [ka-inim]-⸢ma⸣ izi šag₄-ga | Incantation formula: burning fire |
| 12 | [x x x] ma mi ta tar ti | ... what ...? |
| 13 | [x x x] ⸢ma⸣ mi ta kam ti | ... what has been done to me? |
| 14 | [x x x] la me-te bi-im | ... not suitable for this |
| 15 | [x] ⸢bur⸣ [x x x] mi zi pa kam šu | ... bur ... hand |
| 16 | ka-inim-ma izi šag₄-ga | Invocation for burning fire |
| 17 | 3(diš) ka-inim-ma NE-ša₃-ga mu šid-bi 1(u) 4(diš) | 3 (mana wool for) the incantation of NE-saga, year: “The total (is) 14 |
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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