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Fs Sigrist 024 (P376869)
Incantation, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | Fs Sigrist 024 |
|---|---|
| ID | P376869 |
| Museum no. | BM 111089 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | mul gu2 an-na | the rising star of heaven |
| 2 | am-gin7 du7-du7 | made perfect like a wild bull, |
| 3 | uszum gal ki-a di#? gi4-gi4 | Great ušum creature who goes on earth |
| 4 | gu4 kar-gin7 saman2 ga-a-szub | Like a ox, I want to cast a net. |
| 5 | am3 kar-gin7 gu2-da ga-szub | I want to abandon the bull like a quay. |
| 6 | a2-zu da-zu u3-ma-da-a-gar | Your arms are bound, your arms are set. |
| 7 | am-gin7 da ga#-a-du | Like a wild bull, I want to go beside it |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | unu-gal-la gi4-bi2-e11-a | in the Great Oval to be restored |
| 2 | ki-gal-la gi4-bi2-gub | I will return to the foundation pit. |
| 3 | ga-na lu2 {d}en-ki | Come, man of Enki! |
| 4 | gu4-ta im-ta-a-da | he brought from the ox. |
| 5 | usz-zu he2-da | may your blood flow! |
| 6 | me-zu he2-ses | may your divine powers be reconciled |
| 7 | tu2 {d}en-nig2-nu-ri-im | the life of Ennignuri |
| 8 | mu13-mu13 lu2-nin-ga2 | the name of my lady |
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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