BagM Beih. 02, 010 (P363274)
Ritual and liturgical, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | BagM Beih. 02, 010 |
|---|---|
| ID | P363274 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Ritual and liturgical |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
English translation
By ORACC project cams/gkab · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Top [0:2] t.e. 1t.e. 1– | May it go well [...] Antu. |
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 55 | [...] renovating of [...] temple, [...] a favourable month on a [...] during the night [...] 3 offering tables for the god [...], the [...] of the temple and the protective spirit [...]. You lay out an offering. You present shoulder, fatty tissue and roast meat. You libate first-class beer, wine (and) [...]. You set fire to a pile of brushwood for Ea and Asalluhi. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 66–o 99 | You lay out an offering to Ea and Asalluhi. You libate [...], wine (and) milk. You sing the taqribtu-lament 'Come out like Utu ...' (and) the eršammakku-lament 'Woe, who destroyed'. In the morning on the roof of the temple of those gods you sprinkle pure water where you have swept. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 1010–o 1010 | You set out 3 offering tables for Ea, Šamaš and Asalluhi. |
| Obverse [9:12] o 1111–o 1313 | You place 3 linen cloths on the seats. You set in place a cake (made) of honey, butter, dates, fine flour (and) filtered oil. You set up [...] adagurru-containers (full) of first-class beer, wine (and) milk. [...] a censer (full) of juniper. |
| Obverse [12:18] o 14-1514-15–o 2020 | You strew all (kinds of) seed. You lay out 3 offerings. You present shoulder, fatty tissue and roast meat. You libate first-class beer, [...]. You set up water. You draw the curtain. You sing opposite the temple 'He weeps [...] the just temple'. After this he sings to Ea, Šamaš [...], with the halhallatu-drum, 'Important one, return to me', 'Utu is king' (and) '... tears'. He stops. [...] the water [...]. |
| Obverse [18:19] o 2121–o 2121 | The ritual procedures in the domain of the [...]. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| t.e. | ||
| 1 | [... an]-⸢tu₄ liš-lim⸣ | |
| o | ||
| 1 | [...] x x [x x] ⸢uš⸣-šu-ši ⸢ša₂ E₂⸣ [...] | |
| 2 | [x] ITI šal-mu ⸢ina⸣ [...] ina GE₆ 3 ⸢GI⸣.[DU₈]-⸢MEŠ⸣ a-⸢na DINGIR⸣ [x] | |
| 3-4 | [...] E₂ u {d}[LAMMA ...] {⸢udu}SISKUR₂ BAL⸣{qi₂} {⸢uzu⸣}[ZA₃;.LU] {uzu}ME.HE₂ u {⸢uzu⸣}[KA.IZI] ⸢tu-ṭah⸣-ha KAŠ SAG ⸢GEŠTIN⸣ [x] | |
| 5 | BAL{qi₂} ab-ru a-na {⸢d}e₂⸣-a u {d}ASAR.LU₂.HI ⸢tu-nam⸣-[mar] | |
| 6 | {udu}SISKUR₂ a-na {d}e₂-a u {d}ASAR.LU₂.HI BAL{⸢qi₂⸣} [x x] | |
| 7 | GEŠTIN GA BAL{qi₂} {d}⸢utu⸣-gin₇ e₃-ta UB LA U₂ ⸢ER₂⸣ | |
| 8 | u₃-ba mu-hul ER₂.ŠEM₄.MA ŠIR₃ ina še-ri₃ ina UR₃ | |
| 9 | E₂ DINGIR-MEŠ šu-a-tu a-šar ta-aš(ŠI-)⸢biṭ(KID) A KU₃-MEŠ ta-⸢sal-lah₃⸣ | |
| 10 | 3 GI.DU₈-MEŠ a-na {d}e₂-a {d}UTU u {d}ASAR.LU₂.HI ⸢KEŠ₂⸣ | |
| 11 | 3 GADA-MEŠ ina muh-⸢hi⸣ KI.⸢TUŠ⸣-MEŠ GAR{an} NINDA.I₃.DE₂.AM₃ ⸢LAL₃⸣ | |
| 12 | I₃.NUN.NA ZU₂.LUM.MA {zi₃}EŠA I₃.GIŠ BARA₂.GA GAR{an} [x] | |
| 13 | A.DA.GUR₅ KAŠ SAG GEŠTIN GA GUB{an} NIG₂.NA {šim}LI [x x] | |
| 14-15 | ŠE.NUMUN DU₃.A.BI DUB{aq} 3 {udu}SISKUR₂ BAL{qi₂} {⸢uzu⸣}[ZA₃];.⸢LU {uzu⸣}ME.HE₂ u {uzu}⸢KA⸣.IZI tu-ṭah-ha KAŠ ⸢SAG⸣ [x x] | |
| 16 | BAL{qi₂} A-MEŠ GUB{an} {⸢tug₂}šid-du⸣ GID₂.DA{ad} e₂ ⸢zid⸣ [...] | |
| 17 | er₂ im-še₈-še₈ ⸢ina⸣ [ter]-⸢ṣi⸣ E₂ ŠIR₃ ⸢EGIR⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 18 | dilmun{ki} niŋin-na {d}⸢utu⸣ [lugal]-⸢am₃⸣ er₂ [...] | |
| 19 | ina hal-hal-la-at a-⸢na {d}e₂⸣-[a {d]}⸢UTU⸣ [...] | |
| 20 | ŠIR₃ i-kal-la A-[MEŠ ...] | |
| 21 | ne₂-pe-ši ša₂ ŠU-MIN [...] | |
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- 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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