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Iraq 38, 060 (P363158)
Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Iraq 38, 060 |
|---|---|
| ID | P363158 |
| Museum no. | JMS s.n. 12 |
| Collection | de Serres, J. Mariaud, Paris, France |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| surface a | ||
| 1 | enuru{+e2-nu-ru} | Enuru-enuru |
| 2 | a an-ne2 ri-a | Oh An! |
| 3 | dumu ki-in-du tu-da | son born in Kindu, |
| 4 | emedax(|UM+ME|){da} ses-e a-e3-a | the sweet nursemaid coming out, |
| 5 | emedax(|UM+ME|) ses-e ga zi gu7-a | the sweet-toothed nursemaid who eats good milk |
| 6 | lu2 u4-ug! kalam-ma ri-a | The one who ... the storm(?) of the land |
| 7 | a du11-ga an-na dumu {d}erisz-ki!(HI)-gal-ka | water poured by An, son of Eriškigal |
| 8 | lu2 husz an-ur3-ra szu-ke4 | the furious man of the horizon |
| 9 | lu2 gidim hul lu2-hul | The evil ghost, the evil man |
| 10 | zi an-na zi ki he2-pa3 | may the life of heaven be long lasting, may the earth be glad. |
| surface b | ||
| 1 | zi {d}ne3-iri11-gal# {d}en-lil2 kur-ra-ka he2#-pa3 | May the life of Nergal and Enlil be found in the netherworld |
| 2 | zi {d}erisz-ki-gal ama {d}nin-a-zu he2-pa3 | Life of Eriškigal, mother Ninazu, may it be found. |
| 3 | zi {d}nam-tar lu2 gu-la he2-pa3 | may the life of Namtar, the great man, be found. |
| 4 | zi {d}husz-bi-sa6-ga dam nam-tar-re-ka he2-pa3 | may the life of Hušbisaga, the spouse of fate, be found. |
| 5 | lu2 zi dingir kur2-ra sag-sze3 i3-ri2-ba | The loyal man, the hostile god, on its head, |
| 6 | lu2-ba en-na ba-an-ta-ri-na-asz | As long as this man lives, |
Sources & licences
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- 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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