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OrNS 54, 219 (P355699)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OrNS 54, 219 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355699 |
| Museum no. | BM 025145 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | gu4 si-bi si ur2-ra murgu-bi a-sa-al | The horns of the ox are horned, the thighs are twisted. |
| 2 | sza3!-ba ku3-sig17 ki-a tab-ba | inside it gold was placed on the ground |
| 3 | umbin-bi zabar ki u4-ta | Its pins, bronze from the day, |
| 4 | en-nam giri3 pa-an-tab | How long will you follow the path? |
| 5 | en ge6-par4-ra-ke4 giri3 pa-an-tab | The lord of the Ŋipar has twisted his foot. |
| 6 | i-in-da-ga i-in-da-am | He smote, he smite. |
| 7 | gu4 babbar i-in-da-am | the white ox he weighed out, |
| 8 | gu4 ge6 i-in-da-am | The black ox will lie down. |
| 9 | sze kur2 gal2 {d}utu gu4-da-am | the hostile barley of Utu, the bull |
| 10 | ki?-bi na-an-gi4-gi4 | he should not return to its place |
| 11 | te-ia3-nu-re | Teyanure, |
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)
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