SpTU 4, 134 (P348728)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 4, 134 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348728 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [...] hand of Ištar. In order to keep away the dead who keep appearing. Water from the river, infusion of mundu-flour [...] one by one you mix (them) up with each other. You fill the horn of an ox; [...] the horn of an ox with your right hand you raise [...] with your left hand and you speak as follows: |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | "[...] my goddess, look favourably upon (me)! May you appease your angry hearts! |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | May your moods be reconciled (with me)! Provide me (with) peace!" |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | [...] ... he extinguishes the torch (with) the water from the ox's horn and the dead will be kept away. |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | [...] (in) his dream, dead who keep appearing: [...] mustard, atāʾišu-plant, hound's-tongue-plant, a rag [...] you fasten (it) with a tendon from a cow's carcass (or) the tendon of a dormouse; you put it around his neck. |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | [...] a man's bone, lupin, imhur-līm-plant, henbane, male iron, zalāqu-stone, mūṣu-stone in a leather (bag). |
| Reverse [9:11] r 1010–r 1111 | [...] a rag, first-class beer, sulphur, mūṣu-stone in a leather (bag). |
| Reverse [10:12] r 1111–r 1212 | [...] imhur-līm-plant, imhur-ešrā-plant, a man's bone in a leather (bag). |
| Reverse [11:13] r 1212–r 1313 | [...] tamarisk seeds, colocynth root, you mix this up with cedar oil; you put (it) in a leather (bag) around his neck; you anoint (him) with oil. |
| Reverse [12:14] r 1313–r 1414 | [...] of tamarisk, with beer, with oil in a leather (bag); : alternatively, liquorice root with beer, with oil in a leather (bag). |
| Reverse [13:15] r 1414–r 1515 | [...] ardadillu-plant, elkullu-plant, elikulla-plant, [...] mūṣu-stone in a leather (bag). |
| Reverse [15:16] r 1616–r 1616 | [...] elkullu-plant |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
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| r | ||
| 1 | [...] ŠU-MIN {⸢d}15 UŠ₂⸣-MEŠ ša₂ IGI-MEŠ ana KU₅{si(IS)} A ID₂ A NIG₂.⸢AR₃.RA⸣ | |
| 2 | [... a-he]-⸢en⸣-na-a ana a-ha-meš HI.HI SI GU₄ SA₅ SI GU₄ ina 15-ka | |
| 3 | [...] ina GUB₃-ka IL₂-ma kam DU₁₁.GA | |
| 4 | [...] {munus}iš-ta-ri nap-li-si ag-ga ŠA₃-ku-nu li-nu-ha | |
| 5 | [lip-pa-aš]-ra ka-bat-ta-ku-nu SILIM.MA šuk-na-ni | |
| 6 | [...] GA MA A-MEŠ ša₂ SI GU₄ GI.IZI.LA₂ u₂-kab-bit-ma UŠ₂-MEŠ KU₅ | |
| 7 | [...] MAŠ₂.GE₆-šu₂ UŠ₂-MEŠ IGI-⸢MEŠ GAZI{sar} KUR.KUR⸣ EME.UR.GI₇ EME.UR.GI₇ {tug₂}NIG₂.DARA₂.ŠU.LAL₂ | |
| 8 | [... ina SA] ⸢AB₂⸣.RI.RI.GA ina SA <PEŠ₂>.UR₃.RA GAG.GAG{pi} ina GU₂-šu₂ GAR{an} | |
| 9 | [...] GIR₃.PAD.DU LU₂.U₁₈.LU tar-muš IGI-lim ŠAKIR AN.BAR NITA {na₄}ZALAG₂ {na₄}mu-ṣa ina KUŠ | |
| 10 | [...] {tug₂}NIG₂.DARA₂.ŠU.LAL₂ KAŠ SAG PIŠ₁₀.{d}ID₂ {na₄}mu-ṣa ina KUŠ | |
| 11 | [...] x {u₂}IGI-lim {u₂}IGI.20 GIR₃.PAD.DU LU₂.U₁₈.LU ina KUŠ | |
| 12 | [...] NUMUN {giš}ŠINIG SUHUŠ {u₂}KUŠ₈.LAGAB(RA) an-ni ina I₃ EREN HI.HI ina KUŠ ina GU₂-šu₂ GAR ina I₃ EŠ | |
| 13 | [...] {⸢giš⸣}ŠINIG ina KAŠ ina I₃ ina KUŠ KI.MIN SUHUŠ {giš}šu-ši ina KAŠ ina I₃ ina KUŠ | |
| 14 | [...] {u₂}AŠ.TAL₂.TAL₂ {u₂}el-kul-la {u₂}eli-kul-la | |
| 15 | [...] {⸢na₄⸣}mu-ṣa ina KUŠ | |
| 16 | [... {u₂]}⸢el⸣-kul-la | |
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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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