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ISET 1, 199 (pl. 141), Ni 09844 (P355883)
Incantation, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | ISET 1, 199 (pl. 141), Ni 09844 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355883 |
| Museum no. | Ist Ni 09844 |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
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 i' | ||
| 1ʾ | [...] x | |
| 2ʾ | [...]-⸢ib⸣-ŋar | ...-ibbar |
| 3ʾ | [...] gig sahar-ra [...]-in-dug₄ | ... was satisfied with the bitterness of the dust |
| 4ʾ | [...] šakir ga x x | ... the šakir-vessel |
| 5ʾ | [...] ⸢sig₁₀⸣-ga-ba mi-ni-ib | He filled its ... with reddish greenery |
| 6ʾ | [...] UD na | ... sunrise to moonset: |
| o ii' | ||
| 1ʾ | [...]-e RI [...] | ... ... |
| 2ʾ | he₂-en-⸢la₂⸣ | may he release. |
| 3ʾ | ka-inim-ma e₂ ⸢tur₃⸣-bi-da an-na PEŠ mu-un-zig₃ ki-a sahar mu-un-zig₃ | Incantation: “The house of the cowshed rises in heaven, it rises on earth. |
| 4ʾ | ŋiš-gi-en-gi-na ⸢nam⸣-lu₂-ulu₃-⸢ka⸣ | Išgi-engina of Enamelu-ulu |
| r iii' | ||
| 1 | ⸢nu⸣-[...] ⸢mu⸣-zig₃ | Enu’e-nu-e-[...] e-muzig |
| 2 | nu-dug₃-dug₃-ga mu-un-zig₃ | he raised up the one who is not good. |
| 3 | tu-ra ŋi₆-u₃-na | ... in the river |
| 4 | mu-un-zig₃ | raised up. |
| 5 | a₂-sag₃ bi₂-ib-ŋar-x | he ... the asag offerings. |
| 6 | x mu-un-zig₃ | he raised ... |
| 7 | [...] lu₂ ⸢he₂⸣-[...]-DU | ... a man |
| r iv' | ||
| 1 | [en₂ e₂]-nu-ru | Incantation: Enuru |
| 2 | [...] tur₃-ra eme bi₂-in-ak | ... in the cowshed he spoke. |
| 3 | [...] x ki-a | ... on earth |
| 4 | [...]-ba | In its ... |
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)
- 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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