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OrNS 41, 357 (P355889)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OrNS 41, 357 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355889 |
| Museum no. | BM 047859 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian; Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | uncertain |
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 | en₂ e₂-nu-ru | Incantation: Enuru |
| 2 | ze₂-am₃ u₂-šim-gin₇ | sweet like ebony |
| 3 | ki mu-un-dar | he destroyed. |
| 4 | ud₅-da-am₃ saŋ nam-il₂ | The nanny bears the responsibility. |
| 5 | maš₂ ud₅-da-gin₇ | like a goat's kid |
| 6 | |UD.UD| nam-il₂ | to raise |
| 7 | muš-a-gin₇ | like a snake |
| 8 | eme na-na-ed₃-de₃ | should not speak a word to him, |
| 9 | muš ki pil₂-la₂-gin₇ | like a snake on a disturbed place |
| 10 | ze₂ na-na-dub₂-be₂ | do not slander him! |
| 11 | ze₂ ni₂-za | with your own blood |
| 12 | mu-e-ši-du₃-a | who built it |
| 13 | dug-gin₇ gaz-ba | smashed like a pot |
| 14 | izi-gin₇ te-ni-ib | Like fire, you rise up. |
| 15 | izi {u₂}|A.ZI&ZI.LAGAB|gin₇ | like a fire of a date palm |
| 16 | ni₂-za te-bi₂-ib | you have sworn by yourself. |
| 17 | tu₆ dug₄-ga | good incantation |
| 18 | {d}nin-girimₓ(|A.HA.BU.TAR.DU|) | For Ningirim |
| 19 | nam-šub eridu{ki}ga | the fate of Eridu |
| r | ||
| 20 | {d}en-ki-ke₄ | of Enki |
| 21 | dag agrun-na-ka | the door of the cella |
| 22 | he₂-em-ma-an-du₈-du₈-e | may he make perfect for me. |
| 23 | lag mun-na | a kind of malt |
| 24 | šu u₃-me-ti | Hand of a Ghost |
| 25 | nam-šub u₃-me-sum | the fate of Umesum |
| 26 | ka-ka-na u₃-me-ŋar | in his mouth he smote |
| 27 | še₁₀-gin₇ he₂-dur₂-re | may it be seated like a palm |
| 28 | bu-lu-uh₂-gin₇ | like a pig |
| 29 | he₂-si-il-le | may he make whole. |
| 30 | tum₉-gin₇ gu-du-ni-ta | like a wind blowing wind |
| 31 | he₂-em-ma-ra-DU | may he bring to you. |
| 32 | ka-inim-ma ze₂-kam | Incantation formula. |
| 33 | ki-i ka im-gid₂-da gaba-ri {na₄}na-ru₃-a {na₄}ŋir₂-tab | When the mouth is long, a copy of a stela of birtab-stone |
| 34 | DIŠ-{d}en-u₂-šal-lim a DIŠ-da-bi-bi sar-ma ib-ri-im | Written and collated according to the original |
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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