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VS 24, 053 (P347172)
Prayer/Incantation, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | VS 24, 053 |
|---|---|
| ID | P347172 |
| Museum no. | VAT 17057 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian; Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer/Incantation |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| [ŋeš-hur diŋir-re-e]-⸢ne⸣-ke₄ ⸢nu⸣-[bal-e] | “It is the crossroads of the intertwined world, | |
| [... DINGIR]-⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | ... the gods | |
| [ŋeš-hur an-ki]-a nu-⸢kur₂-ru⸣-[da] | Who does not change the course of heaven and earth | |
| [...] ⸢AN⸣ u KI ša₂ la ut-tak₂-⸢ka⸣-[ru] | ... heaven and earth, which cannot be changed | |
| [diŋir diš-am₃] šu nu-bal-⸢e⸣ | Bīr-Sîn is his, he will not cross over it | |
| [...] la uš-pe-el-[lu] | ... they did not defile | |
| [diŋir lu₂]-⸢bi⸣ nu-mu-un-da-⸢bur₂⸣-[...] | (Sum) I did not ... the river(?) with its inhabitants(?) (Akk) The river(?), its inhabitants were not able to escape | |
| [...] ⸢LU₂⸣ la i-pa-aš-ša-[ru] | ... they will not release the ēru-house | |
| [ŋeš-par₃] nu-dib-ba hul-ŋal₂-še₃ ⸢du₃⸣-[a] | The “no-brother-of-a-thousand-fifty-fifth-sheep-priestess, evil-doer of the e’edu-priests, | |
| [giš-par-ru la] e-te-qi₂ ša₂ ana lem-ni re-tu-⸢u₂⸣ | May the scepter of evil not approach me! | |
| [sa-par₃ nu]-⸢e₃⸣ hul-ŋal₂-še₃ la₂-[e] | The net that cannot be opened will be seized by evil. | |
| [sa-pa-ru la a-ṣe-e] ša₂ ana lem-ni tar-⸢ṣu⸣ | The one who is not a saparu priest, the one who seeks evil against me | |
| o | ||
| 7' | [udug hul he₂-a] a-la₂ hul he₂-a | whether it is an evil udug demon or an evil ala demon |
| 8' | [gidim hul he₂-a] gal₅-la₂ hul ⸢he₂⸣-a | Whether it is an evil ghost or an evil galla demon |
| 9' | [diŋir hul he₂-a] maškim ⸢hul⸣ [he₂-a] | May it be a destructive flood, may it be an evil maškim-demon |
| 10' | [... he₂]-a {d}⸢dim₉⸣-[...] | “May it be, may Ea-dim-Ea |
| 11' | [...]-⸢x he₂⸣-a ⸢ki⸣-[...] | May ... rise! May Ea rise! |
| 12' | [... hul]-⸢ŋal₂ he₂⸣-[a ...] | ... may it be carried off evilly |
Sources & licences
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