SpTU 1, 010 (P348431)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 1, 010 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348431 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| flake [1:2] flake 2'2'–flake 2'2' | [...] ... you cool (down); "(In) the bedroom it is favourable (in) the bedroom [...] |
| flake [2:4] flake 3'3'–flake 4'4' | [...] it is favourable (in) Sumer (and) Akkad it is favourable, it is favourable" [...] |
| flake [3:5] flake 4'4'–flake 5'5' | [...] (in) Sumer, the semen [...] |
| flake [4:5] flake 5'5'–flake 5'5' | You pound the [...] of a black raven; you mix (it) with cypress oil; incantation: [...]. |
| flake [5:6] flake 6'6'–flake 6'6' | You mix (it) with the blood of a male rock-partridge; [...] with cedar; [...] |
| flake [6:8] flake 7'7'–flake 8'8' | [...] your desire does not calm and she [...] |
| flake [7:9] flake 8'8'–flake 9'9' | [...] ṣaṣundu-plant, azallâ-plant, nīnâ-plant, saffron, camomile [...] |
| flake [8:10] flake 9'9'–flake 10'10' | You drink [...] and the sexual desire [...]. |
| flake [9:11] flake 10'10'–flake 11'11' | You pound [...] the spur of a ballūṣītu-bird with oil; you anoint his penis and [...]. |
| flake [10:12] flake 11'11'–flake 12'12' | [...] ... horse, noble lord of the forests, who [...]? |
| flake [11:13] flake 12'12'–flake 13'13' | [...] he has taken away my sexual desire, like loosened strings [...] |
| flake [12:13] flake 13'13'–flake 13'13' | [...] the whole day, he hates me; during the whole night, he performed (magic) against me; he bound me like [...] |
| flake [13:15] flake 14'14'–flake 15'15' | [...] he has taken away my sexual desire, [...] loosened [...]; may they purify you, yourself! [...] |
| flake [14:16] flake 15'15'–flake 16'16' | [...] purified ...; sons of the mountains, mountains [...] |
| flake [15:17] flake 16'16'–flake 17'17' | [...] ... may he keep falling ... [...] |
| flake [16:18] flake 17'17'–flake 18'18' | [...] ... sexual desire. : Its ritual: you fumigate (him with) kukuru-wood and sexual desire [...] |
| flake [17:18] flake 18'18'–flake 18'18' | [...] ... is arising; who calmed you down? ... [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| flake | ||
| 1' | [...] x ⸢KA⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x te-en-te-en ki-nud še-ga ⸢ki⸣-nud [...] | |
| 3' | [...] še-ga ki-en-gi uri{ki} še-ga še-ga [...] | |
| 4' | [...] ki-en-gi a-ri-a [...] | |
| 5' | [...] UGA{mušen} GE₆ SUD₂ ina I₃ {giš}ŠUR.MIN₃ HI.HI ⸢EN₂⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [...] ⸢SAR⸣ ina UŠ₂ BURU₅.HABRUD.DA{mušen} BURU₅.HABRUD.DA{mušen} NITA HI.HI ina EREN [...] | |
| 7' | [...] ŠA₃-ka ul i-na-hi u₃ ši-i [...] | |
| 8' | [...] {u₂}ṣa-ṣu-un-du {u₂}A.ZAL.LA₂ {u₂}KUR.RA {u₂}HAR.SAG LAG.A.ŠA₃.⸢GA⸣ LAG.A.ŠA₃.⸢GA⸣ [...] | |
| 9' | [...] NAG-ma ŠA₃.[ZI.GA ŠA₃.[ZI.GA ...] | |
| 10' | [... ha-an]-dur bal-lu-ṣi-ti ina I₃.GIŠ SUD₂ GIŠ₃-šu₂ ŠEŠ₂-ma [...] | |
| 11' | [...] x x HU ANŠE.KUR.RA e-tel-lu mut-tal-lu-u₂ {giš}TIR-MEŠ man-nu [...] | |
| 12' | [...] TI ki-i qe₂-e ra-mu-ti it-ba-la ni-iš ŠA₃-⸢ia⸣ [...] | |
| 13' | [...] kal u₄-me i-zer-ra-an-ni ina kal mu-ši i-pu-ša₂-an-ni ik-sa-an-ni ki-i ⸢KA⸣ [...] | |
| 14' | [... ra]-mu-ti it-ba-la ni-iš lib₃-bi-ia at-ta lil-li-lu-ka U LI x [...] | |
| 15' | [...] x qu-ud-du-šu₂-tu DUMU-MEŠ KUR-MEŠ hur-sa-[ni ...] | |
| 16' | [...]-ti-im-ma TI KU KA lim-taq-qut KA ⸢KA⸣ [...] | |
| 17' | [...] x ŠA₃.ZI.GA ŠA₃.ZI.GA DU₃.DU₃-BI {u₂}GUR₂.GUR₂ ina IZI SAR-šu₂-ma ŠA₃.⸢ZI⸣.[GA ŠA₃.⸢ZI⸣.[GA ...] | |
| 18' | [...] ⸢BI⸣ ZI{u₂} man-nu u₂-ni-⸢ih-ka⸣ x [...] | |
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