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OECT 05, 22 (P345803)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 05, 22 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345803 |
| Museum no. | Bod S 297 |
| Collection | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | ⸢nir zi⸣ ŋar-ra x x x-⸢ra-ni-in⸣-[...] | The true hero ... for you |
| 2 | x šu aŋ₂ x [...]-ke₄ | Hand of ... |
| 3 | AN x ⸢gi⸣ sikil-la-ke₄ ⸢sikil⸣ AN sikil | The ... of the pure reed-house, the pure shrine, |
| 4 | [...] sikil-e-⸢de₃⸣ | ... to purify |
| 5 | [...] šu dadag-ge | ... with a pure hand |
| 6 | [...]-ra-na mu-na-x | ... his ... |
| 7 | ⸢an-gin₇⸣ he₂-⸢em-kug⸣-ge ki-gin₇ he₂-em-sikil-e | May he shine like heaven, may he purify like earth |
| 8 | x ⸢an-na⸣ [he₂]-em-dadag-ge | May the ... of heaven shine brightly |
| 9 | ⸢en₂⸣-[...] | |
| 10 | [...] mu ⸢gal⸣-bi | ... its palace |
| 11 | en₂ e₂-nu-ru gi nu-da-gi | Incantation: O Enuru, the reeds are not to be returned. |
| 12 | x x x-⸢e⸣-ne LU-LU | ... men |
| 13 | ⸢lu₂⸣ til₃ nam-tar zid | The lord, the life of the true fate |
| 14 | AN x gal gi-izi-la₂ šu ba-ab | ... great reed ... received |
| 15 | ŋiš-bi-a hu-mu-un-⸢dab₅⸣ | may he seize it for me. |
| 16 | {ŋiš}⸢ildag₂⸣ šu ba-ab ⸢tu₆⸣ en₂ e₂-nu-ru | “Eildag’e3 he swore. E-tu-e3 Incantation: Enuru |
| 17 | ⸢dadag-ga⸣ sur₂-ra {d}en-lil₂-la₂ | “Edadaĝa-eš-e23-sur-ra-of-Enlil, |
| 18 | x x-zu a-ma-ru zig₃-ga | Your ... rising flood. |
| 19 | gaba-šu-ŋar nu-tuku | has no rival |
| 20 | x x niŋ₂-na-a-kam kur₉-ra-zu-ne | When you enter the ... of his own, |
| 21 | niŋin-na-zu-de₃ | in order to make you know |
| r | ||
| 22 | ⸢lu₂⸣-bi an-ki-gin₇ he₂-em-kug he₂-em-sikil | Its temple, like heaven and earth, may it be pure and purified. |
| 23 | ⸢he₂⸣-dadag-ge | may it be bright! |
| 24 | ka-inim-ma gi-⸢izi-la₂⸣-kam | It is the wording of a reed mat. |
Sources & licences
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