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VS 24, 024 (P347143)
Prayer, Old Babylonian, Babylon · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 24, 024 |
|---|---|
| ID | P347143 |
| Museum no. | VAT 15582 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian; Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| [a abzu-ŋu₁₀] a x SAR-a-ŋu₁₀ | Ay, the Abzu, ay, ... | |
| [... {d}am-an]-⸢ki a abzu⸣-ŋu₁₀ a₂ uru₁₆-na-ŋu₁₀ | ... of Amān-ēki, woe Abzu-ebbu, strength of Uruna | |
| [... am] uru₂-ze₂-eb{ki}ba a <(abzu-ŋu₁₀)> | ... bull of Uruzeb, woe the Apsu! | |
| [...] ⸢i₃⸣-ma-al ki u₆-di a <(abzu-ŋu₁₀)> | ... the e’emal plant, the place of wonder, woe the Apsu! | |
| [...] tab-ri-a-tim | ... the tabītum priestess | |
| [...] na-aŋ₂ tar-tar-re a <(abzu-ŋu₁₀)> | ... deciding fate, <woe> | |
| [...] ši an-ki ši kur-kur-ra-ŋu₁₀ | ... of heaven and earth, of all the lands | |
| [...] ⸢aŋ₂ ši⸣ ma-al-la an-da-ma-al-la-ŋu₁₀ | (Sum) ... is there for you(?) in the temple(?) (Akk) In the temple, there is plenty for you | |
| [...] x ⸢na⸣-piš-ti [a-na] ši-ik-na-at na-piš-ti | ... my work for the protection of my life | |
| [... ad]-⸢gi₄-gi₄⸣ dim₃-⸢me-er⸣-re-ne-ŋu₁₀ | ... the advisers of the gods | |
| [...] x x x x x [x (x) {d}a]-⸢nun-na⸣-ke₄-ne-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ | ... the Anuna gods | |
| [...] x ša₃-⸢ab⸣ x ⸢aŋ₂⸣ x x x ⸢u₃⸣-tu-[ŋu₁₀] | ... ša-eab-e-a ... | |
| [...] ti-[x (x)]-⸢tum⸣ x [...] | ... Ti...-etum | |
| [...] x {d}am-an-ki ki i-⸢bi₂⸣ [...] | ... Amanki, when he rises | |
| [...] ⸢na⸣-ab-ba ⸢na⸣-x [...] | ... the ešaba-house, the ...-house | |
| [...] x-mu [...] | ... ... | |
| [...] x [...] | ||
| [...] x [x (x)] | ||
| [...] li-⸢bi₂⸣-[x] | ... may he ... | |
| [...] x x x uru₂-⸢zu⸣-[še₃] | ... to your city | |
| [...]-zu | ... your | |
| [...] x-zu | ... your | |
| [...-zu]-⸢še₃⸣ arhuš-⸢a⸣ de₃-en-tuku-tuku | May ... have mercy on me | |
| li-ir-ši | may he be. | |
| [...]-⸢zu⸣-še₃ ša₃-la₂ de₃-en-su₁₃-su₁₃ | I want to utter an arazu prayer to you | |
| li-re-em | may he be. | |
| [... uru₂]-ze₂-eb{ki}ba du₃-du₃-a-bi | Its building of Uruzeb | |
| ne-en-pu-us-su₂ | we shall perform. | |
| [...] kur-ba inim ku₃-zu de₃-em-me | ... may he speak your holy word in its land | |
| [...] ⸢ma⸣-tam li-ik-ru-ub | ... may he praise | |
| [...] HI-gin₇ ad-gi₄-bi ba-kur₂ | ... its advice is changed. | |
| [...] ⸢dub⸣ 1kam-ma a abzu-ŋu₁₀ | ... the first scribal school, water of the Abzu |
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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