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VS 17, 31 (P343050)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 17, 31 |
|---|---|
| ID | P343050 |
| Museum no. | VAT 08360 |
| 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 | munus tu₆-zu šu bal-e-da | Woman, your incantation has been shattered |
| 2 | nam giri₃-pad-ra₂-ni uš garza ib₂-TU-TU | (Sum) The fate of his feet, he will change the way of the land (Akk) The destiny of his foot, the manner of the city will change |
| 3 | ka-ni abul ŋi₆-da keš₂-da-[gin₇] | His mouth is like a gate tied to a river |
| 4 | {d}utu di-ku₅ tu₆-zu-ne al-bal-e-da | Šamaš, when you judge in your prayer, |
| 5 | sahar-bi id₂-da šub-ba | its soil in the river |
| 6 | i-bi₂-bi an-na ib₂-e₁₁ | Its eyes were raised up in heaven. |
| 7 | {d}nin-girim₃-ta nin tu₆-tu₆ | For Ningirim, the lady of incantations |
| 8 | ki-gub-ba-mu nu-gub-ba ki-gal₂-la-mu nu-gal₂-la | My standing place does not exist, my standing place is not there. |
| 9 | igi {d}utu e-sir₂ til₃-la DU-DU-am₃ | Before Utu, the one living in the street ... |
| 10 | šag₄ til₃-la ŋar-ra-am₃ | The one who lives in the open country |
| 11 | ka-inim-ma uh₄ bur₂-ru-da-ka | Incantation formula: uḫu burruda |
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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