SpTU 1, 013 (P348434)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 1, 013 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348434 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [1:3] o i 2'2'–o i 3'3' | Incantation. 'Whoever you are, sorceress, who ... like the sons of a man, (and who) has bound a binding of .... |
| Obverse Column i [3:4] o i 4'4'–o i 4'4' | '... to you and you go ... on journeys like a rainbow. |
| Obverse Column i [4:5] o i 5'5'–o i 5'5' | 'I loosen your binding. I scatter your assemblage. |
| Obverse Column i [5:6] o i 6'6'–o i 6'6' | 'I loosen your bindings. I fill .... |
| Obverse Column i [6:7] o i 7'7'–o i 7'7' | 'All .... |
| Obverse Column i [7:8] o i 8'8'–o i 8'8' | '(Thus) you, (but) may I thrive at the command of Šamaš the judge. |
| Obverse Column i [8:10] o i 9'9'–o i 10'10' | 'I am pure, I am bright and I am clean.' Incantation formula. |
| Obverse Column i [9:11] o i 10'10'–o i 11'11' | Wording of the ritual to dispel sorcery. |
| Obverse Column i [10:14] o i 11'11'– | Its ritual procedure: ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] .... |
| Obverse Column ii [0:8] o ii 1'o 1'–o ii 8'8' | $ start of column broken |
| Reverse Column ii [0:10] r ii 1'r 1'–r ii 10'10' | $ start of column broken |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | [...] x ⸢GIG⸣ x [...] | |
| 2' | EN₂ at-ta-man-nu {munus}UŠ₁₁.ZU ša₂ ki-ma DUMU-MEŠ LU₂ x x x x | |
| 3' | ir-ku-su ri-ki-is ZI x | |
| 4' | E x x-kim-ma GIM {d}TIR.AN.NA x tal-lak KASKAL-MEŠ | |
| 5' | ri-⸢kis⸣-ki a-paṭ-ṭar pu-hur-ki a-sap-⸢pah⸣ | |
| 6' | a-paṭ-ṭar rik-si-ki ⸢IM⸣ u₂-ma-al-la | |
| 7' | mim-mu-u₂ ⸢LA⸣ x MA x LA PI MA x x x x x TU KI | |
| 8' | ka-ši-⸢ma⸣ ana-ku lu-⸢šir⸣ ina qi₂-bit {d}⸢UTU da⸣-a-a-nu | |
| 9' | el-⸢le⸣-ku eb-be₂-ku u za-⸢ka-ku te EN₂⸣ | |
| 10' | KA.INIM.MA UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.[RU.DA]-⸢KAM⸣ | |
| 11' | [KID₃].KID₃-BI x [x] x [x] x x [...] x | |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | x [...] | |
| 3' | ki-ma [...] | |
| 4' | KUG [...] | |
| 5' | ⸢LAL⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | ŠID [...] | |
| 7' | NU [...] | |
| 8' | ⸢MIN⸣ [...] | |
| r ii | ||
| 1' | AŠ MA [...] | |
| 2' | NIG₂ x [...] | |
| 3' | ⸢LAL⸣ | |
| 4' | NIG₂ x [...] | |
| 5' | NIG₂ x [...] | |
| 6' | NIG₂ x [...] | |
| 7' | x [...] | |
| 8' | NIG₂ [x] x x [...] | |
| 9' | [x] x x [...] | |
| 10' | [x] x x [...] | |
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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