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OECT 05, 24 (P345805)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 05, 24 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345805 |
| Museum no. | Bod S 300 |
| 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 | muš šu il₂-a muš lu₂-ra ti-a | The one who raises the hand, the one who carries the hand of a man |
| 2 | muš a-ab-ba-gin₇ gaba šu im-mi-ib₂-il₂ | Like a snake of the sea, he raised his hand against the chest |
| 3 | muš-gin₇ a-ba-ab-ba-gin₇ gaba šu im-mi-ib₂-il₂ | Like a snake, like a fish, he raised his hand against the chest |
| 4 | muš-huš-a šu im-⸢ma-ni⸣-in-il₂ | He raised his hand against the snake |
| 5 | muš gal huš-a x ⸢šu⸣ im-ma-ni-in-il₂ | The great, furious snake raised its head there |
| 6 | muš izi bar₇-re-de₃ muš si gur₃-ru | The snake, to make the fire extinguish, the snake carrying horns |
| 7 | muš ⸢saŋ⸣ imin-na | snake of the seven heavens |
| 8 | {d}⸢en-ki⸣ x nu-du₁₂ ⸢šir₃⸣ kug-ga il₂-la | E'enki’e ... does not sing, the holy shrine is raised. |
| 9 | ⸢tu₆⸣ dug₄-ga {d}nin-girimₓ(|A.HA.A.DU|)ma-ka | In the “House of Ningirim,' |
| 10 | nam-šub eridu{ki}ga | the fate of Eridu |
| 11 | {d}asal-⸢lu₂⸣-[hi]-e dumu {d}en-⸢ki⸣-ke₄ | Asalluhi, son of Enki |
| 12 | x-bi-ir-bi [...] x | Its ... |
| 13 | [x]-bi a-ba x en-[...] | Who ... its ...? |
| r | ||
| 1ʾ | ka-ba ka du₈-⸢a⸣ | In its mouth, the mouth of Du'ea |
| 2ʾ | ⸢tu₆⸣ en₂ e₂-nu-⸢ru⸣ | Incantation: Enu'eru |
| 3ʾ | ⸢ka⸣-inim-ma muš dab₅-be₂-⸢da-kam⸣ | It is an incantation for a snake to be seized. |
Sources & licences
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- 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)
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