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VS 17, 30 (P343049)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 30 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343049 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08538 |
| 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 | dingir lugal dingir-re-e-ne-ke₄ | the god, king of the gods |
| 2 | {d}en-ki lugal kur-kur-ra-ke₄ | Enki, king of all the lands |
| 3 | ama {d}namma ama absu-ke₄ | Mother Namma, mother of the sea, |
| 4 | {d}dam-gal-nun-na ga₂-da he₂-e₃ | May Damgalnuna come out with me. |
| 5 | {d}⸢asar-lu₂⸣-hi tu₆-tu₆ ša₃-zu | Easalluhi, your wailing |
| 6 | ka-inim-ma za-a-kam a-gub₂-ba za-a-kam | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer, it is the standing prayer. |
| 7 | ⸢IGI⸣ [x] x šu-e bi₂-in-gar | he placed in his hand |
| 8 | {d}asar-lu₂-hi dumu eridu{ki}ga-ke₄ | Asarluhi, son of Eridu |
| 9 | e₂-zu eš₃ eridu{ki}ga nam-mu-da-an-bur₂-re | Do not tear out your temple, the shrine of Eridu |
| 10 | ka-inim-ma | Incantation |
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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