SpTU 4, 135 (P348729)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 4, 135 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348729 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column ii [0:2] o ii 1o ii 1–o ii 22 | Its ritual: you pound together iron powder, imhur-līm-plant, kibrītu-sulphur (and) ruʾtītu-sulphur; you pour (them) into oil; you recite this incantation 7 times for (your) desire. |
| Obverse Column ii [2:4] o ii 33–o ii 44 | The man's penis, the woman's pudenda, you annoint them (lit. it). |
| Obverse Column ii [3:4] o ii 44–o ii 44 | Incantation: "Sexual desire, sexual desire, the bed of desire: |
| Obverse Column ii [4:5] o ii 55–o ii 55 | Ištar made (it) for Dumuzi; |
| Obverse Column ii [5:6] o ii 66–o ii 66 | Nanaya made (it) for her (lit. his) consort; |
| Obverse Column ii [6:7] o ii 77–o ii 77 | Išhara made (it) for her (lit. his) Almanu; |
| Obverse Column ii [7:8] o ii 88–o ii 88 | I, myself, made (it) for so-and-so, descendant of so-and-so. |
| Obverse Column ii [8:9] o ii 99–o ii 99 | May his flesh get stiff! May his penis become erect! |
| Obverse Column ii [9:11] o ii 1010–o ii 1111 | [...] night and day, at the command that the skilful Ištar decrees, Nanaya, Gazbaba and Kanisura". The wording of the incantation. |
| Obverse Column ii [11:13] o ii 1212–o ii 1313 | Its ritual: you pound a mountain kamūnu-fungus, an imhur-līm-plant, a ṣaṣumtu-plant, 3 plants [...]; you pour (them) into an pūri-bowl (for) oil; a censer of burāšu-juniper [...] |
| Obverse Column ii [13:18] o ii 1414– | [...] ... this incantation three times. |
| Reverse Column i [1:2] r i 2'2'–r i 2'2' | [...] do not approach! |
| Reverse Column i [2:4] r i 3'3'–r i 4'4' | [...] you released it into a kurkurratu-vessel (or) into a leather (bag). |
| Reverse Column i [3:5] r i 4'4'–r i 5'5' | [...] imhur-līm-plant, kibrītu-sulphur, into a leather (bag) |
| Reverse Column i [4:6] r i 5'5'–r i 6'6' | [...] lupin, imhur-līm-plant, imhur-ešrā-plant |
| Reverse Column i [5:6] r i 6'6'–r i 6'6' | [...] ... lupin, algae, iron ... |
| Reverse Column i [6:8] r i 7'7'–r i 8'8' | you thread [...] on a linen string; you put (it) around his neck. |
| Reverse Column i [7:8] r i 8'8'–r i 8'8' | [...] male [...], male copper, male iron, into a leather (bag) |
| Reverse Column i [8:9] r i 9'9'–r i 9'9' | [...] .... (If) a man keeps seeing dead men in his dream. |
| Reverse Column i [9:10] r i 10'10'–r i 10'10' | You speak [...]; you plait white wool and red wool; you thread (them); |
| Reverse Column i [10:11] r i 11'11'–r i 11'11' | [...] ... "May the fever be cleared away! May the fever leave! |
| Reverse Column i [11:12] r i 12'12'–r i 12'12' | [...] the sickness does stand back!" |
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 ii | ||
| 1 | DU₃.DU₃-BI KU.KU AN.BAR IGI-lim PIŠ₁₀.{d}ID₂ UH₂.{d}ID₂ | |
| 2 | 1{niš} SUD₂ ana lib₃-bi I₃ ŠUB EN₂ an-nit 7{šu₂} ana ŠA₃ ŠID | |
| 3 | ša₂ NITA GIŠ₃-šu₂ ša₂ MUNUS GAL₄.LA-šu₂ ŠEŠ₂-su | |
| 4 | EN₂ ŠA₃.ZI.GA ŠA₃.ZI.GA {<MIN(ŠA₃.ZI.GA)>} {<MIN(ŠA₃.ZI.GA)>} KI.NU₂ ŠA₃.ZI.GA ŠA₃.ZI.GA | |
| 5 | i-⸢pu-uš⸣ {d}iš-tar ana {d}DUMU.ZI | |
| 6 | [i-pu]-⸢uš⸣ {d}na-na-a ana ha-i-ri-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [i-pu]-⸢uš⸣ {d}iš-ha-ra ana {d}al-ma-ni-šu₂ | |
| 8 | [e-pu]-⸢uš⸣ ana-ku a-na NENNI A NENNI | |
| 9 | [li-ih]-⸢mu⸣-u₂ UZU-MEŠ-šu₂ li-zaq-qi-pu u₂-šar-šu₂ | |
| 10 | [...] mu-ši u ur-ri ina qi₂-bit iq-bu-u AN.ZIB₂ | |
| 11 | {[d}iš]-tar {d}na-na-a {d}GAZ.BA.BA {d}KA.NI.SUR.⸢RA⸣ TU₆ EN₂ | |
| 12 | [DU₃].DU₃-BI UZU.DIR KUR.RA IGI-lim ṣa-ṣu-un-tu₂ 3 U₂-[HI.A ...] | |
| 13 | [...] SUD₂ ana ŠA₃ I₃ BUR ŠUB{di} NIG₂.NA {šim}⸢LI⸣ [...] | |
| 14 | [...] x EN₂ an-nit 3{šu₂} | |
| r i | ||
| 1' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [...] la₃ TE{e} | |
| 3' | [...] ina kur-kur-ra-tu ina KUŠ BAR-ši₂ | |
| 4' | [...] IGI-lim kib-rit ina KUŠ | |
| 5' | [...] x {u₂}tar-muš {u₂}IGI-lim {u₂}IGI.20 | |
| 6' | [...] ⸢NU⸣ tar-muš KA tam-tu₂ AN.BAR I₃ MAN.<DU> | |
| 7' | [...] ina GU GADA E₃ ina GU₂-šu₂ GAR | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢NITA₂⸣ {na₄}URUDU NITA₂ AN.BAR NITA₂ ina KUŠ | |
| 9' | [...] x-MEŠ NA ina MAŠ₂.GE₆-šu₂ UŠ₂-MEŠ IGI.IGI | |
| 10' | [...] ⸢DU₁₁⸣.DU₁₁{ub} SIG₂ BABBAR SIG₂ SA₅ NU.NU E₃ | |
| 11' | [...] ⸢TAR⸣ U₄.DA DU₈ U₄.DA BAD | |
| 12' | [...] egir nam-tar-ra al-gub | |
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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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