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OECT 05, 23 (P345804)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 05, 23 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345804 |
| Museum no. | Bod S 296 |
| 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 | tum₉ ab-ba im-ma-ta-ri | The wind blew in the sea. |
| 2 | a-ab-ba sig-ga-ta im-ma-ta-ri | From the lowland he entered the sea. |
| 3 | a-ab-ba igi-nim-ta im-ma-ta-ri | From the Upper Sea he entered. |
| 4 | an-ur₂-ta ŋen-a-ni | from the horizon his lord |
| 5 | šag₄-gig im-DU lipiš-gig im-DU | He ... the šag-gig-disease, he .... the lipiš-ghost |
| 6 | lu₂-u₁₈-lu pa₄-hal-la ba-ni-in-dab₅ | He seized the man of the phlegm. |
| 7 | lu₂-ulu₃-bi ⸢su⸣-a ga x keš₂-da | This man ... milk |
| 8 | zi nu-um-me zi al-ir-ri-re | “It is not true, it is true! It is being carried away. |
| 9 | ZI DI-gin₇ x im-DU-DU | ... like ... |
| 10 | šag₄-gig im-ma-an-dab₅ | he seized the šaggig-demon |
| 11 | {d}asal-lu₂-hi igi im-ma-an-sig₁₀ | Asalluhi looked at it |
| 12 | a-a-ni {d}en-ki-še₃ e₂-a ba-ši-in-kur₉ | his father Enki brought him into the temple. |
| 13 | [niŋ₂] ⸢i₃⸣-zu-a-mu u₃ za-e in-ga-x-⸢zu⸣ | I am afraid of you, but you ... |
| 14 | x x am-si-har-ra-an ⸢šu⸣ um-me-⸢ti⸣ | (Sum) ..., the one of the scepter, the hero (Akk) I am the one who makes the ... come forth from the netherworld |
| 15 | [lu₂]-ulu₃ dumu diŋir-ra-na ⸢su⸣-na u₃-me-ŋar | A man, a son of a birrānu, the esû-priestess, ... |
| 16 | [x] {d}nanna he₂-eb-dadag | ... may Nanna be bright. |
| 17 | [x] x he₂-dur₂-re bu-lu-uh₃-gin₇ ⸢he₂⸣-si-il-e | May he sit ... like a pigeon, may he make it resplendent |
| r | ||
| 18 | ⸢ka⸣-inim-ma tum₉-a-⸢kam⸣ | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer. |
Sources & licences
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