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ZA 092, 022-023 (P355707)
Incantation, Old Babylonian, Me-Turran · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | ZA 092, 022-023 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355707 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Me-Turran (mod. Tell Haddad) |
| Coordinates | 34.1928, 45.0563 |
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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | maš-maš eden gu i-⸢ni⸣-[la₂] | The exorcist stretches out his neck in the steppe |
| 2 | eden ki šu-up-pa ⸢gu⸣ [i-ni-la₂] | The steppe, the place of the šuppa-vessel he filled |
| 3 | eden ki da-ŋal₂-la gu i-[ni-la₂] | In the steppe, the place of balaŋ drums played. |
| 4 | eden ki HI-ba gu i-⸢ni⸣-[la₂] | The steppe, the place of ..., roared |
| 5 | ša-tu-um-ša-tu-um eden gu i-ni-⸢la⸣ | The šātû-priestess of the steppe cries out |
| 6 | UH-ru-UH-ru eden gu i-ni-la₂ | ... the steppe roars. |
| 7 | a-ri-ta gu i-ni-la₂ | he stretched out a neck from a rope. |
| 8 | nu-ri-ta gu i-ni-la₂ | he stretched out a net from the nugig priestess, |
| 9 | e-me ha-mu-na eden gu i-ni-la₂ | The tongue of the one who has screamed in the steppe, |
| 10 | dal-ha-mu-na eden gu i-ni-la₂ | In her allaḫamuna he stretched out a net in the steppe. |
| 11 | dub₃-sa-ra-na-ke eden gu i-ni-la₂ | In his Dubasara he stretched out a net. |
| 12 | ša-ŋa₂ ma-he eden gu i-ni-la₂ | The mighty one stretched out a net in the steppe |
| 13 | ša-ŋa₂ gal-le eden gu i-ni-la₂ | In the great steppe he stretched out a net |
| 14 | e-zi-na-am ku-us₂-su ni-ib-ri-mi gu um-li-li-ni | (Sum) The ezida priestess, the nibrum priestesses of the netherworld, whose neck is swollen (Akk) His kūssu-priestesses(?) are the ones who shave his neck |
| 15 | gu ga hi-bi še ga hi-bi | Its flax and milk are sweet, its barley and milk is sweet |
| 16 | mu-ud ha-am-bu-re še gu-nu-bi mi-im-zi mu-ni-in-ni | (Sum) The young man, the young woman, screamed at him (Akk) He shouted to the young man with his shrill voice |
| 17 | ga-na-qa-na ku a-ga-ar-a-ga-ar ku-ga ni-iš-gi mi-ni-in-dug₄ maš-maš [...] | He made the pure šunû-bowl, the holy agar-vessel, and the holy alabaster resound. The exorcist ... |
| 18 | siki{ki} u₂-a iš-gar₃ ni-iš nu-zu | wool, grass-fed, cultivated, not known |
| 19 | gi-ki ba-ap-pa-ar-bi za im-ki-ki-ši-ṭa₃-ni | Its reed mats that were smashed, he twisted it. |
| 20 | niŋ₂-ŋa₂-ka ni-in-gi-li-an-na-ak-ka KA im-ma-ab-di-li-ni | (Sum) The gate of Nigiliana was opened for me (Akk) The door of Niggiliana was open for me |
| 21 | e-hi za-az ⸢bi⸣-[x] u₃-mu-un x x [x] | ... the lord ... |
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