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CT 44, 25 (P345534)
Incantation, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 44, 25 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345534 |
| Museum no. | BM 092669 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 | en₂ e₂-nu-ru | Incantation: Enuru |
| 2 | KA la₂-e-de₃ za la₂-e-de₃ | In order to ... in order to be ... |
| 3 | ka-tu₆-ŋal₂ eridu{ki}ga-ke₄ | the katubal priest of Eridu, |
| 4 | nig₂-aka-a tu{mušen}e ba-an-ši-ni-dab₅ | he seized the tumuš-demon |
| 5 | šu-ni-a šu im-ma-ab-du₇ | His hand was perfect |
| 6 | maš₂-ni ig-da im-ma-la₂ | his goat weighed out on the door |
| 7 | nig₂-aka-a tu{mušen}e li-ši-in-la₂ x x | May the scepter of justice be bound to you |
| 8 | a-ra₂ tu{mušen}e gal-le-eš i₃-x-ga₂-[ga₂] | He set the great arrows in the way of the great gods |
| 9 | ka-bi-ta {d}asar-lu₂-hi im-ma-ni-⸢in⸣-[x] | Asarluhi ... from its mouth |
| 10 | ud-da {d}asar-lu₂-hi dumu {d}en-ki-ga-ke₄ | When Asalluhi, son of Enki |
| 11 | a-a-ni {d}en-ki-ra e₂-a-ba | for his father Enki in the house |
| 12 | a-a-mu KA la₂-e-de₃ za la₂-e-de₃ | My father, to make the mouth tremble and to make your mouth shake. |
| 13 | {d}en-ki-ke₄ dumu-ni {d}asar-lu₂-hi-še₃ ⸢gi₄⸣ | Enki, his son Asarluhi, the bride |
| 14 | gin-na dumu-mu | and a son |
| 15 | nig₂-aka-a tu{mušen}e u₃-um-mi-kud | “I have sworn by the command of the gods. |
| 16 | lugal-ra zag-še₃ u₃-um-mi-la₂ | for the king on his right side |
| 17 | x KA mu HI x ŋar-ra-ŋa₂ | ... in the ... |
| 18 | ka-ba u₃-me-e-ni-ŋar | In its mouth he ... |
| 19 | lugal-ra ma-an-gu₂ ma-na-gu-um | For the king, he ... for him. |
| 20 | su-na i₃-gal₂-la | are here in his lap. |
| 21 | i-bi₂-gin₇ an-na ha-ba-e₃-de₃ | May it come forth from heaven like a star. |
| 22 | muru₉-gin₇ ki-a ha-ba-e₃-de₃ | may it come forth from the earth like a cloud. |
| 23 | lugal-bi he₂-sikil he₂-dadag | May its king be pure, may he be bright. |
| 24 | lugal-e dumu dingir-ra-ni {na₄}bur šaŋan-gin₇ ha-ba-luh-luh | May the king, the son of his god, be swept away like a šaban stone. |
| 25 | {na₄}bur i₃-nun-gin₇ ha-ba-su-su-ub | May the bur stone, like ghee, stand there. |
| 26 | AN x x dingir-ra NE šu | ... god ... |
| 27 | [...]-ši-in-gi₄-gi₄ | ... will return |
| 28 | [ka]-⸢inim⸣-ma x x [...] | Incantation formula: ... |
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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