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DCS 153 (P355901)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | DCS 153 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355901 |
| Museum no. | BNUS 472 |
| Collection | Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France |
| Language | Sumerian |
| 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 | |U.AM₃|en-ni-nu-ru | and Enninuru |
| 2 | an an an an ⸢an⸣ an an | An, An, Antares, An |
| 3 | ki ki ki ki ki ki ki | “The place, the place, [the place], the place! The place! [The place!] |
| 4 | ka₂ ka₂ ka₂ ka₂ ka₂ ka₂ ka₂ | “The gate, the gate, [the gate], the gate! [The gate!] The gate! |
| 5 | si si si si si si si | ... , |
| 6 | barag barag barag barag [barag] barag barag | The dais, the dais ... The daises ... |
| 7 | šudun šudun šudun šudun šudun šudun šudun | You set up a šudun-bowl, you set up an ac-joint, (you set up) a ritual assemblage, |
| 8 | {d}en-lil₂ lu₂ [...] | Enlil, the one who |
| 9 | {d}en-ki ⸢lugal⸣ [...] | Enki, the king |
| 10 | x-ma-te ⸢he₂⸣-[...] | “May the ... of the eḫē-priestess |
| 11 | x ma-a he₂-me-[...] | ... may ... |
| 12 | ud hul he₂-me-A-[...] | May a bad day ... |
| 13 | [x] ⸢hul⸣ [...] | ... the evil ... |
| r | ||
| 1ʾ | zi {[d}x x x] | the life of ... |
| 2ʾ | zi {d}šul-pa-[e₃ x x x] | the life of Šulpa’e |
| 3ʾ | zi {d}nin-hur-saŋ-ŋa₂ [...] | The life of Ninḫursa |
| 4ʾ | zi {d}en-lil₂-le he₂-⸢pad₃⸣ | May Enlil find the life |
| 5ʾ | zi {d}nin-lil₂-le he₂-⸢pad₃⸣ | May the life of Ninlil be found. |
| 6ʾ | zi a-nun-na gal-gal-la [...] | The life of the great Anuna gods |
| 7ʾ | a-pi-la-lum ir₃ {d}x-x | Apilalum, the cry of ... |
| 8ʾ | u₂ ba-ra-KA-KA u₂ ba-ra-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | You do not eat food, you do not sleep. |
| 9ʾ | ba-ra-mu-un-da-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | did not raise a claim against him, |
| 10ʾ | en-na gi₄ hu-mu-un-x | As long as he ... |
| 11ʾ | ⸢tu₆⸣ gig šu nu-ri-kam | bitter incantation of the hand of the nugig priestess |
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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