SpTU 2, 048 (P348653)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 2, 048 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348653 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| flake [0:1] flake 1'flake 1'–flake 1'flake 1' | [...] ... 17 [...] |
| flake [2:3] flake 3'3'–flake 3'3' | [...] buttocks ... [...] |
| flake [3:4] flake 4'4'–flake 4'4' | [...] he brings a sow ... [...] |
| flake [4:5] flake 5'5'–flake 5'5' | you recite over him [...] this ... [...] |
| flake [5:6] flake 6'6'–flake 6'6' | you release the pig [...]. The garment that he stripped off [...] |
| flake [6:9] flake 7'7'–flake 9'9' | the incantation priest and the patient should not take [...]. On the 3rd day he enters [...] and they take a pig. Falling sickness ... [...]. They shall take as a garment [...] that he stripped off. "Falling sickness" [...]. |
| flake [9:11] flake 10'10'–flake 11'11' | (If) a person, Lugalamašpae seized him: [...] root of ...-wood, [...] root of hound's-tongue, henbane, ardadillu-plant [...]. |
| flake [11:13] flake 12'12'–flake 13'13' | If falling sickness affects a person: you wrap in a skin root of baltu-plant, root of [...], root of šunû-tree, root of henbane [...]. |
| flake [13:15] flake 14'14'–flake 15'15' | Ditto (If falling sickness affects a person): [...] seeds of tamarisk, seeds of ēru-tree, seeds of [...]-tree [...]. |
| flake [14:16] flake 15'15'–flake 16'16' | Ditto (If falling sickness affects a person): [...] root of liquorice, root of mandragora, seeds of [...]. |
| flake [15:16] flake 16'16'–flake 16'16' | [...] ... arzallu-plant [...] |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1' | [...] nu#? 1(u) 7(disz) [...] | |
| 2' | _[i3]_ gu#-un-nu te-qit# [...] | |
| 3' | [sun]-kin#-na _ti_-e ta#? [...] | |
| 4' | _{munus}szah_-tu2 _il2_-szi x [...] | |
| 5' | [ana] _ugu_-szu2 _szid_-nu an-na-a _szesz2#?_ [...] | |
| 6' | _szah_ tu-masz-szar _tug2-hi-a_ sza2 isz-hu#-[t,u ...] | |
| 7' | _masz-masz_ u3 _{lu2}gig nu ti_-u2 _u4 3(disz)-kam#_ [...] | |
| 8' | ki!-ma sza2 _szah ti_-u2 _an-ta-szub-ba_ [... _tug2-hi-a]_ | |
| 9' | sza2# isz-hu-t,u ana _tug2-hi-a ti_-u2 _an-ta-szub#-[ba_ ...] | |
| 10' | _DISZ na {d}lugal-amasz-pa-e3 dab_-su _suhusz {gesz}[x_ ...] | |
| 11' | _suhusz {u2}eme ur-gi7 {u2}szakir {u2}asz-tal2-tal2# [...] | |
| 12' | szum4-ma _an-ta-szub-ba ugu na al-szub suhusz {gesz}dih3 suhusz#_ [...] | |
| 13' | _suhusz {gesz}sze-na2-a suhusz {u2}szakir_ ina _kusz du3-du3_-pi# [...] | |
| 14' | _DISZ ki-min numun {gesz}szinig numun {gesz}ma-nu numun {gesz}[x ...] | |
| 15' | _DISZ ki-min suhusz_ {gesz}szu-szi _suhusz {gesz}nam-tar numun#_ [...] | |
| 16' | [...] x _{u2}man-da_ {u2}ar2-zal-la# [...] | |
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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