SpTU 4, 136 (P348730)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 4, 136 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348730 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Namburbû-ritual against the evil of a snake which ... [...] in a man's house. |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | So that its evil does not [...] on the man and his house. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | Its ritual: at the river bank, you sweep the ground; you keep pouring pure water; you set up [...]; you set out 12 emmer-wheat loaves; [...] suluppu-dates (and) powder of [...]; |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | you fill 3 lahannu-flasks (with) first-class beer and you set (them) up correctly; [...] oil of ... [...]; you set up [...]; you set in place a censer of burāšu-juniper; you present the offering; ... [...]; |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | you hang a curtain; you keep throwing small heaps of flour; ... [...]. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | That man stands over the snake and you recite this incantation: |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [...] the one who puts in order heaven and earth; Šamaš, judge [...]; |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | Faithful shepherd of all the people [...]; |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | Šamaš, you are the judge: I kneel in front of you [...]. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...] of this snake which the mongoose [...] in the house. |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | I am frightened, I am afraid and I am absolutely terrified [...]. |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | May its evil not approach me! May it not come closer to me! May it not creep up on me! May it not [...] |
| Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515 | [...] may it cross over [...] |
| Obverse [15:16] o 1616–o 1616 | [...] in [...] |
| Obverse [16:20] o 1717– | [...] may it keep going up [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | you wrap up [...] ... |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] his heart [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...] ... his heart [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] of iron [...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...] that man, water ... [...] |
| Reverse [9:11] r 10'10'–r 11'11' | [...] the evil of the snake not [...] |
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 | ||
| 1 | [NAM].⸢BUR₂⸣.BI HUL MUŠ ša₂ ina ⸢E₂⸣ NA AN [...] | |
| 2 | ⸢HUL⸣-šu₂ ana NA u E₂-šu₂ la₃ [...] | |
| 3 | DU₃.DU₃-BI ina GU₂ ID₂ KI SAR A KU₃.GA ŠUB.⸢ŠUB⸣{[di} ...] | |
| 4 | GUB{an} 12 NINDA IMGAGA KEŠ₂ ZU₂.LUM.MA KU.[KU ...] | |
| 5 | 3 {dug}LA.HA.AN-MEŠ KAŠ SAG SA₅-ma GUB{an} I₃ x [...] | |
| 6 | GUB{an} NIG₂.NA {šim}LI GAR{an} {udu}SISKUR₂ BAL{qi₂} x [...] | |
| 7 | ⸢šid⸣-du GID₂{ad} ZI₃.DUB.DUB.BU ŠUB.ŠUB{di} E₃ [...] | |
| 8 | UGU MUŠ LU₂ BI UGU GUB{az}ma ŠID{tu₂} an-ni-⸢tu₂⸣ ŠID{nu} | |
| 9 | [...] ⸢muš⸣-te-še-er AN{e} u KI{ti₃} {d}UTU da-a-[a-nu ...] | |
| 10 | ⸢SIPA⸣ ki-i-ni ša₂ ka-la te-ne₂-še-⸢e⸣-[ti ...] | |
| 11 | {[d]}UTU da-a-a-na-ta IGI-ka ak-[mis ...] | |
| 12 | [...] ⸢MUŠ⸣ an-ne₂-e ša₂ {d}NIN.KILIM ina E₂ [...] | |
| 13 | [pal]-⸢ha⸣-ku ad-ra-ku u šu-ta-du-ra-[ku ...] | |
| 14 | [HUL]-šu₂ a-a ⸢TE⸣ [a]-a iq-ri-ba a-a DIM₄ a-a [...] | |
| 15 | [...] ⸢lib⸣-bal-kit [...] | |
| 16 | [...] ina [...] | |
| 17 | [...] ⸢li⸣-[tel]-⸢li⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] x MA [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x GAG.GAG{[pi} ...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢ŠA₃⸣-šu₂ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] x x U₄ ⸢ŠA₃⸣-šu₂ [...] | |
| 5' | [...] U ⸢SAG⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [...] ša₂ AN.BAR [...] | |
| 7' | [...] x QA [(x)] HI U₂ ŠA₂ x [...] | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢LU₂⸣ BI A-MEŠ x UM [...] | |
| 9' | [...] MA PAB [...] ŠU₂ NU [...] | |
| 10' | [...] HUL MUŠ la₃ [...] | |
| 11' | [...] x x x [...] | |
| 12' | [...] x [...] | |
| 13' | [...] x x [...] | |
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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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