SpTU 1, 006 (P348427)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 1, 006 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348427 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation-Ritual |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
English translation
By ORACC project cams/gkab · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| side a [0:1] side a 1'side a 1'–side a 1'side a 1' | Apotropaic ritual for the evil of a snake that [...] in Nisannu (Month I). |
| side a [1:2] side a 2'2'–side a 2'2' | Apotropaic ritual for the evil of a snake that [...] in a man's house. |
| side a [2:3] side a 3'3'–side a 3'3' | For the evil of spat saliva not to approach a man. |
| side a [3:4] side a 4'4'–side a 4'4' | (If) a man sold his father's house for silver. |
| side a [4:5] side a 5'5'–side a 5'5' | Apotropaic ritual for the evil of a snake that [...] hunting in a man's house. |
| side a [5:6] side a 6'6'–side a 6'6' | Apotropaic ritual for the evil of entwined snakes that [...] in a man's house. |
| side a [6:7] side a 7'7'–side a 7'7' | (If) a stroke of lightning occurred in a man's house. |
| side a [7:8] side a 8'8'–side a 8'8' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) in a man's house or a king's palace (the consequence of) what is missing from the omen in the entrails has seized him. |
| side a [8:9] side a 9'9'–side a 9'9' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) a man presented an offering and in the slaughtering of the sheep blood did not come forth. |
| side a [9:10] side a 10'10'–side a 10'10' | (gloss: not (available)) For the healing of all illness. |
| side a [10:11] side a 11'11'–side a 11'11' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) a man cried a lament to his god. |
| side a [11:12] side a 12'12'–side a 12'12' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) a baby is born in Nisannu (Month I) from the 1st day until the 30th day. |
| side a [12:13] side a 13'13'–side a 13'13' | (gloss: not (available)) Incantation. .... |
| side a [13:14] side a 14'14'–side a 14'14' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) the flocks encounter adversity. |
| side a [14:15] side a 15'15'–side a 15'15' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) in the centre of the flocks (gloss: break) ... of a sheep. |
| side a [15:16] side a 16'16'–side a 16'16' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) flocks whose milk .... |
| side a [16:17] side a 17'17'–side a 17'17' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) a flock suffered from an imposer of illness. |
| side a [17:18] side a 18'18'–side a 18'18' | Apotropaic ritual for the evil of kamūnu-fungi. |
| side a [18:19] side a 19'19'–side a 19'19' | Apotropaic ritual for the evil of red ants. |
| side a [19:20] side a 20'20'–side a 20'20' | Apotropaic ritual for the evil of woodworm. |
| side a [20:21] side a 21'21'–side a 21'21' | (gloss: not (available)) Incantation. Šamaš, formidable lord of heaven and earth (and) of : the clouds. |
| side a [21:22] side a 22'22'–side a 22'22' | (gloss: not (available)) Incantation. You, the 7 gods, the exalted judges. |
| side a [22:23] side a 23'23'–side a 23'23' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) he gave a woman to a man (in marriage) and when he fetched her. |
| side a [23:24] side a 24'24'–side a 24'24' | (gloss: not (available)) (If) a man who is bearing a boil. |
| side a [24:25] side a 25'25'–side a 25'25' | Apotropaic ritual for evil not to approach a man and (his) house. |
| side a [25:26] side a 26'26'–side a 26'26' | Apotropaic ritual for the evil of an anduhallatu-lizard not to approach a man. |
| side a [26:27] side a 27'27'–side a 27'27' | [...] for the evil of a francolin that entered a man's house (or) : fell or [...] in a man's house. |
| side a [27:28] side a 28'28'–side a 28'28' | Apotropaic ritual for ... Anu ... [...]. |
| side a [28:29] side a 29'29'–side a 29'29' | [...] buying a meadow : (if) noblemen ... [...]. |
| side a [29:30] side a 30'30'–side a 30'30' | Apotropaic ritual for a field and orchard ... [...]. |
| side b [5:6] side b 6'6'–side b 6'6' | [...] of horses. |
| side b [13:14] side b 14'14'–side b 14'14' | (gloss: not (available)) [...]. |
| side b [15:16] side b 16'16'–side b 16'16' | (gloss: not (available)) [...]. |
| side b [16:17] side b 17'17'–side b 17'17' | (gloss: not (available)) [...]. |
| side b [18:19] side b 19'19'–side b 19'19' | (gloss: not (available)) [...]. |
| side b [19:20] side b 20'20'–side b 20'20' | (gloss: not (available)) [...]. |
| Left [0:1] l.e. 1'l.e. 1'–l.e. 1'l.e. 1' | When a man renews a watercourse. |
| Left [1:2] l.e. 2'2'–l.e. 2'2' | When he opens the outlet of a watercourse. |
| Left [2:3] l.e. 3'3'–l.e. 3'3' | Incantation. Watercourse whose mud has been removed. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| side a | ||
| 1' | ⸢NAM⸣.BUR₂ HUL ⸢MUŠ ša₂⸣ ina {iti}⸢BARA₂⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | NAM.BUR₂.BI HUL MUŠ ša₂ ina E₂ ⸢LU₂⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | ⸢ana⸣ HUL UH₂ ŠUB.BA ana NA la₃ TE{⸢e⸣} | |
| 4' | NA E₂ AD-šu₂ ana KU₃.BABBAR id-din | |
| 5' | NAM.BUR₂.BI HUL MUŠ ša₂ ina E₂ LU₂ bu-u₂-⸢ru⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | NAM.BUR₂.BI HUL MUŠ-MEŠ kit-pu-lu-tu₂ ša₂ ina E₂ ⸢LU₂⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | IZI.ŠUB.BA{a} ina E₂ LU₂ GAL₂ | |
| 8' | la₃ }} šum-ma ina E₂ NA lu E₂.GAL LUGAL ha-liq-ti UZU DAB{bat}su | |
| 9' | la₃ }} šum-ma LU₂ SISKUR₂ BAL{qi₂}ma ina KU₅{si} UDU.NITA₂ UŠ₂ la₃ E₃ | |
| 10' | la₃ }} ana TI{uṭ} GIG DU₃.A.BI | |
| 11' | la₃ }} šum-ma LU₂ ana DINGIR-šu₂ ši-gu-u₂ is-si | |
| 12' | la₃ }} ina {iti}BARA₂ TA U₄ 1-KAM a-di U₄ 30-KAM {lu₂}TUR a-lid | |
| 13' | la₃ }} EN₂ LA HI MA UŠ NA MAR NIG₂ MA AD | |
| 14' | la₃ }} šum₄-ma U₈.UDU-HI.A GABA.RI mah-ra-ma | |
| 15' | la₃ }} šum₄-ma ina ŠA₃ U₈.UDU-HI.A {{ hi-pi₂ }} GA KUR ŠITA₃ UDU.NITA₂ | |
| 16' | la₃ }} U₈.UDU-HI.A GA-BI DU RA DI BA A | |
| 17' | la₃ }} U₈.UDU-HI.A ša-kin₂ GIG u₂-kil | |
| 18' | NAM.BUR₂ HUL ka-mu-ne₂-e | |
| 19' | NAM.BUR₂ HUL KIŠI₉ SA₅-MEŠ | |
| 20' | NAM.BUR₂ HUL bal-ṭi-it-ti | |
| 21' | la₃ }} EN₂ {d}UTU EN šur-bu-u ša₂ AN{e} u KI{ti₃} ša₂ DUNGU-MEŠ | |
| 22' | la₃ }} EN₂ at-tu-nu 7 DINGIR-MEŠ DI.KU₅-MEŠ MAH-MEŠ | |
| 23' | la₃ }} šum-ma MUNUS ana NITA id-din-nu-ma e-nu-ma it-ru-ši(NU) | |
| 24' | la₃ }} LU₂ ša ku-ra-ra na-šu-u₂ | |
| 25' | [(x)] ⸢NAM.BUR₂⸣.BI HUL{ti₃} a-na LU₂ u E₂ la₃ TE{e} | |
| 26' | [(x) NAM].⸢BUR₂⸣.BI <HUL> NIR.GAL.BUR₂ ana LU₂ la₃ TE{e} | |
| 27' | [(x) x x] <HUL> ⸢DAR⸣{mušen} ša₂ ana E₂ LU₂ KU₄ ⸢ŠUB{tu₂⸣} lu ina ⸢E₂ NA⸣ [...] | |
| 28' | [(x) NAM].⸢BUR₂⸣ TE x GAL x x {d}60 RI x [...] | |
| 29' | [(x) x A].GAR₃ ša₂-a-mu šum-ma IDIM-MEŠ ⸢U₂⸣ x [...] | |
| 30' | [(x) NAM].⸢BUR₂⸣ A.ŠA₃ u {giš}⸢KIRI₆⸣ x [...] | |
| side b | ||
| 1' | [...] x MA | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | [...] | |
| 4' | [...] | |
| 5' | [...] | |
| 6' | [... ANŠE].⸢KUR⸣.RA-MEŠ | |
| 7' | [...] x RA | |
| 8' | [...] x A x x | |
| 9' | [...] | |
| 10' | [...] | |
| 11' | [...] | |
| 12' | [...] | |
| 13' | [...] | |
| 14' | ⸢la₃⸣ }} [...] | |
| 15' | [...] | |
| 16' | la₃ }} [...] | |
| 17' | la₃ }} [...] | |
| 18' | [...] | |
| 19' | la₃ }} [...] | |
| 20' | ⸢la₃⸣ }} [...] | |
| l.e. | ||
| 1' | ⸢e-nu-ma LU₂⸣ ID₂ GIBIL | |
| 2' | e-nu-ma KA₂ ID₂ i-pat-tu-u | |
| 3' | EN₂ id₂ sahar-bi ib₂-[ta-an-zi-zi] | |
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- 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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