SpTU 5, 235 (P348822)
Incantation-Ritual, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 5, 235 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348822 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1'o 1'–o 7'7' | You sprinkle ... [...]. You make [...]. ... [...]. Wipe clean with [...]. You say over him [...]. You bring [...]. [...] the incantation 'Evil udug-demon [...]'. |
| Obverse [7:18] o 8'8'– | The accompanying ritual: You set in place a .... [...]. [...] meat from a ram and meat from a bird. May they prosper inside. [...] .... You are adjured by the life of the Anunnaku, the great gods. You wipe the invalid clean. May this person be cleansed. [...] ... their ... and their .... You make a cake. In the same way as the cake may ... be calmed. You wipe the invalid clean. Just as before. You recite overhead the incantation 'The evil udug-demon ransacks the man'. |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | The accompanying ritual: You soak (gloss: make the lumps (of dough) small for) a baked loaf and you shape it. You anoint him with ..., honey and butter on the right and the left. You wipe the invalid clean with 7 times 7 (pieces of) bread. You recite overhead (the incantation) 'Like heaven the namtar-demon'. |
| Reverse [7:10] r 88–r 1010 | The accompanying ritual: You form 2 swollen lumps from clay and [...] ... everything on the right and the left. Wipe clean and you wipe the invalid clean. As before. You recite overhead the incantation 'Clay [...] is available from the earth'. |
| Reverse [10:14] r 1111–r 1414 | The accompanying ritual: [...] 2 swollen lumps from malt. Wipe clean and [...] on his side and you wipe [...] clean. Just as before. [...] overhead [...] .... |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | tu-⸢sar⸣-[raq ...] | |
| 3' | DU₃{uš} E x [...] | |
| 4' | U.ME.TE.⸢GUR⸣.[GUR ...] | |
| 5' | e-li-šu₂ ta-[qab-bi ...] | |
| 6' | tu-qar-rab [...] | |
| 7' | EN₂ udug hul [...] | |
| 8' | DU₃.DU₃-BI {giš}PI DU₃{⸢uš⸣} [...] | |
| 9' | UZU UDU.NITA₂ UZU MUŠEN [...] | |
| 10' | ina lib₃-bi liš-ru-u₂ MU x [x] x ⸢SAG⸣ x [x (x)] | |
| 11' | ZI {d}A.NUN.NA.KE-E.NE DINGIR ⸢GAL⸣.GAL-E.NE I.[RI.PAD₃] | |
| 12' | mar-ṣa ⸢tu⸣-[kap]-⸢par⸣ LU₂.U₁₈.LU BI HE₂.EN.SIKIL.LA | |
| 13' | x [x] x x x-šu₂-nu x x x-šu₂-nu-ma x x | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ka-man DU₃{uš} lib₃-bu-u₂ ka-man tur-ra-ta ŠA₃ UDU.NITA₂ | |
| 2 | HA.BA.HUN.GA₂ mar-ṣa tu-kap-par |KI.MIN| GIM | |
| 3 | EN₂ udug hul-ŋal₂ lu₂-ra in-kar-kar ina UGU | |
| 4 | ŠID{nu} | |
| 5 | DU₃.DU₃-BI NINDA KILIB.BA ta-<ra>-sa₃-an {{ NINDA KI.LIB KI E.TUR-MEŠ }} DU₃{uš} x LAL₃ I₃.NUN.NA ; ŠA₃ 15 u ŠA₃ 2.30 | |
| 6 | ŠEŠ₂-su x TA NINDA 7.NA A.RA₂ 7.NA mar-ṣa tu-kap-par | |
| 7 | nam-tar an-gin₇ ina muh-hi ŠID{nu} | |
| 8 | DU₃.DU₃-BI 2 hu-um-bi-iṣ-ṣe-e-tu₂ ša₂ IM DU₃{uš} {{ TA }} mim-ma [x] x [x] ; ŠA₃ 15 u ŠA₃ 2.30 | |
| 9 | U.ME.TE.GUR.GUR mar-ṣa tu-kap-par |KI.MIN| EN₂ ⸢im⸣ [x x] | |
| 10 | ki-a mu-un-ŋal₂ ina muh-hi ŠID{nu} | |
| 11 | DU₃.DU₃-BI 2 hu-um-bi-ṣe-e-tu₂ ša₂ ⸢MUNU₅⸣ [...] | |
| 12 | U.ME.TE.GUR.GUR BAR-RA.NA BAR-RA.NA U.ME.⸢TE⸣.[...] | |
| 13 | tu-kap-par |KI.MIN| ⸢GIM⸣ [...] | |
| 14 | [x] x DI PAB ina ⸢muh⸣-[hi ...] | |
Sources & licences
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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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