SpTU 3, 071 (P348674)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | SpTU 3, 071 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348674 |
| 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 [0:3] o i 1o i 1–o i 33 | (Too broken for translation) |
| Obverse Column ii [0:1] o ii 1o ii 1–o ii 1o ii 1 | To raise from illness; to rescue from hardship; |
| Obverse Column ii [1:2] o ii 22–o ii 22 | To save from transgression; to save from distress; |
| Obverse Column ii [2:3] o ii 33–o ii 33 | To raise from a hole; |
| Obverse Column ii [3:4] o ii 44–o ii 44 | To save from the mouth of catastrophe; |
| Obverse Column ii [4:5] o ii 55–o ii 55 | [Whom] an evil [...] has seized; whom an evil alû-demon has seized; |
| Obverse Column ii [5:6] o ii 66–o ii 66 | [Whom] an evil [...] has seized; whom an evil gallû-demon has seized; |
| Obverse Column ii [6:7] o ii 77–o ii 77 | [Whom] an evil [...] has seized; whom an evil rābiṣu-demon has seized; |
| Obverse Column ii [7:8] o ii 88–o ii 88 | [Whom a ...], who defeated death, has seized; |
| Obverse Column ii [8:9] o ii 99–o ii 99 | [Whom a ...] has seized; whom a labāṣu-demon has seized; |
| Obverse Column ii [9:10] o ii 1010–o ii 1010 | [Whom a ...] has seized; whom something evil has seized; |
| Obverse Column ii [10:13] o ii 1111–o ii 1313 | [...], mistake, sin, [...], oath, curse of his god, ... of the gods, [... what] they planned, may he be released, may he be freed; |
| Obverse Column ii [13:14] o ii 1414–o ii 1414 | [...] elder [brother] (and) elder sister; |
| Obverse Column ii [14:15] o ii 1515–o ii 1515 | [...] the great gods [...]; |
| Obverse Column ii [15:16] o ii 1616–o ii 1616 | [...], the warrior, [...]; |
| Obverse Column ii [16:21] o ii 1717– | (o ii 17) |
| Reverse Column i [1:2] r i 2'2'–r i 2'2' | [May ...] of humankind, whose hands created mankind, [be present]. |
| Reverse Column i [2:3] r i 3'3'–r i 3'3' | [May] Sin, lord of the month, [be present]; may he dispel his curses. |
| Reverse Column i [3:4] r i 4'4'–r i 4'4' | [May] Šamaš, lord of judgement, [be present]; may he release the transgressions. |
| Reverse Column i [4:5] r i 5'5'–r i 5'5' | [May] Adad, lord of divination, be present; may he expel illness. |
| Reverse Column i [5:6] r i 6'6'–r i 6'6' | [May] Tišpak, lord of the troops, be present; may he eliminate headache. |
| Reverse Column i [6:7] r i 7'7'–r i 7'7' | [May] Ninurta, lord of the weapon, be present; may he remove hardship. |
| Reverse Column i [7:8] r i 8'8'–r i 8'8' | May Papsukkal, lord of the sceptre, be present; may he expel illness. |
| Reverse Column i [8:9] r i 9'9'–r i 9'9' | May Marduk, sage of the gods, be present; may he safeguard his life. |
| Reverse Column i [9:10] r i 10'10'–r i 10'10' | 17. [...] Nergal [...]; |
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 | [...] ⸢U₂⸣ | |
| 2 | [...] ⸢U₂⸣ | |
| 3 | [...] ⸢U₂⸣ | |
| o ii | ||
| 1 | i-na mur-ṣu šu-te-bu-u₂ i-na pu-uš-qi₂ ša₂-la-pu | |
| 2 | i-na ar₂-nu ga-ma-lu i-na KISLAH₃ šu-zu-bu | |
| 3 | i-na ha-aš₂-tu₂ šu-li-i | |
| 4 | ⸢i⸣-na pi-i ka-ra-še-e e-ṭe-ru | |
| 5 | [ša₂ ... lem]-nu iṣ-ba-tu-šu ša₂ A.LA₂ lem-nu iṣ-ba-tu-šu | |
| 6 | [ša₂ ... lem]-nu iṣ-ba-tu-šu ša₂ GAL₅.LA₂ lem-nu iṣ-ba-tu-šu | |
| 7 | [ša₂ ... lem]-⸢nu⸣ iṣ-ba-tu-šu ša₂ MAŠKIM lem-nu iṣ-ba-tu-šu | |
| 8 | [ša₂ ... ki]-⸢šit⸣-ti mu-tu₂ iṣ-ba-tu-šu | |
| 9 | [ša₂ ...] ⸢iṣ⸣-ba-tu-šu ša₂ la-ba-ṣu iṣ-ba-tu-šu | |
| 10 | [ša₂ ...] ⸢iṣ⸣-ba-tu-šu ša₂ mim-ma lem-nu iṣ-ba-tu-šu | |
| 11 | [...] hi-ṭi-ti gil₂-lat | |
| 12 | [...] ⸢ma⸣-mit ar₂-rat DINGIR-šu₂ x x x E ša₂ DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| 13 | [...] ⸢ik⸣-tap-<<tap>>-du-ni-i lip-pa-ṭir lip-pa-šir₃ | |
| 14 | [... ŠEŠ] GAL{u} NIN GAL{ti} | |
| 15 | [...] DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ | |
| 16 | [...] ⸢qu⸣-ra-du | |
| 17 | [...] {⸢d⸣}NERGALₓ(|U.GUR|) | |
| r i | ||
| 1' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [li-iz-ziz ... te-ne₂-še]-⸢ti ša₂⸣ ŠU-MIN-šu₂ ib-na-a LU₂{tu₂} | |
| 3' | [li-iz-ziz] {⸢d}30 EN ITI li-pa-aš₂-ši-ir(RU) ma-ma-tu-šu₂ | |
| 4' | [li-iz-ziz] {d}UTU EN DI.KU₅ li-paṭ-ṭir ar₂-ni | |
| 5' | [li-iz]-⸢ziz⸣ {d}IŠKUR EN bi-ri lik-kiš mur-ṣu | |
| 6' | [li-iz]-ziz {d}TIŠPAK EN um-ma-ni li-nak-kir di-ʾu | |
| 7' | [li-iz]-ziz {d}MAŠ EN {giš}TUKUL li-ni-is-sa PAP.HAL | |
| 8' | ⸢li⸣-iz-ziz {d}PAP.SUKKAL EN haṭ-ṭu lik-kiš mur-ṣu | |
| 9' | li-iz-ziz {d}AMAR.UTU ABGAL DINGIR-MEŠ li-šal-lim ZI{tu}šu₂ | |
| 10' | li-iz-ziz {d}ASAR.LU₂.HI MAŠ.MAŠ DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ ; ša₂ ina te-e-šu₂ mi-i-ti ; i-bal-luṭ i-te-eb-bu-u₂ mar-ṣa | |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.