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SBH 20a (P414286)

Ritual and liturgical, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE

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Designation	SBH 20a
ID	P414286
Museum no.	VAT 00168 + VAT 00275
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Language	Sumerian; Akkadian
Period	Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
Genre	Ritual and liturgical
Find spot	Babylon (mod. Bābil)
Coordinates	32.5350, 44.4258

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)
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1	[ušum-gin₇] ni₂ diri-⸢am₃⸣ [ši-in en₃]-⸢še₃⸣ i₃-gi	As if it were the case, he was surpassing in fear, as if he were the one who was chasing after him
2	⸢ba⸣-aš-mu pu-luh-tu₄ ma-lu-u₂ ⸢mi⸣-na tuš-har-ra-ar	I am afraid, I am frightened, you have turned away from me.
3	⸢alim⸣-ma ušum-gin₇ diri-am₃ ši-⸢in⸣ <en₃-še₃ i₃-gi>	(Sum) It is an ealima demon, it is surpassing like the earth (Akk) Its ealim demons are surpassing as the earth
4	⸢alim⸣-ma {{ u }} umun {{ e }} ur-saŋ gal	Important one, lord, king, great hero
5	[ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ gal umun-si {d}mu-ul-lil₂-la₂-⸢ra⸣	Great hero, lord of Enlil
6	⸢alim⸣-ma umun an uraš-ra	Important one, lord of heaven and earth
7	[ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ gal umun e₂-ninnu	Ur-esae, great lord of the Eninnu
8	⸢alim⸣-ma ibila {{ a }} e₂-šar₂-ra	bison, heir of the E-šara
9	[ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ gal umun e₂-šu-me-ša₄	Great hero, lord of the Ešumeša temple
10	⸢alim⸣-ma umun kiš{ki}a-⸢ta⸣	Important one, lord of Kiš,
11	[ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ gal umun e₂-dub-⸢ba⸣	Great hero, lord of the scribal school
12	⸢alim⸣-ma umun e₂-me-te-ur-saŋ	Important one, lord of the Emeteursa
13	[ur-saŋ] gal umun e₂ u₆-UR₃ ki-⸢tuš⸣ [mah]	Great hero, lord of the temple of the horizon, supreme dwelling
14	[alim]-ma umun e₂ gu₂-du₈-a	Important one, lord of the temple of Gudua
15	[ur-saŋ] gal umun [e₂]-⸢mes⸣-[lam]	Great hero, lord of the temples
16	⸢alim⸣-ma umun [...]	Important one, lord
17	[ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ gal umun [...]	Ur-esae, great lord
18	⸢alim⸣-ma umun [...]	Important one, lord
19	[ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ gal umun [...]	Ur-esae, great lord
20	⸢alim⸣-ma ⸢a₂⸣ [mah ...]	Important one, great one
21	[...]
22	[ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ gal [...]	Ur-esae, the great
23	[...]
24	[alim]-⸢ma⸣ [...]	Bison
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1'	[...] ⸢x x⸣ [...]
2'	[...]-e ⸢x x⸣ [...]	... the ... temple
3'	[...] ⸢x⸣-e gu₃ bi₂-[de₂ ...]	... spoke to the eše-priest
4'	[...]-⸢la₂ eš₂⸣-la₂ gu₃ bi₂-de₂ [...]	... shouted ...
5'	[...]-⸢x⸣ gu₃ bi₂-⸢de₂⸣ [...]	... shouted
6'	[...] e-⸢sir₂⸣ ŋar-ra [...]	... the Esir temple ...
7'	[...] ⸢x x x x x⸣ [...]
8'	[...] ⸢x x x⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [...]
9'	[...] ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...]
10'	[nis]-hi [reš]-⸢tu⸣-u₂ ⸢ušum⸣-gin₇ ni₂ diri-am₃ [...]	The first part of the night, like a rising storm, he felt a greater fearsomeness
11'	[ana DU₁₂{ru} ZI]{hi} IM.⸢GID₂⸣-[DA] {m}{⸢d⸣}[...]	In order to perform a ritual: Imgida-eda, E22da
12'	[... {d}nanna-u₃]-tu	... Nanna-utu
13'	[...] {d}EN-A-[MU ...] ⸢x x⸣ [...]	... Bel-apla-iddin
14'	[...] ⸢x⸣ [...]
15'	[ša₂] ši-i ⸢MU⸣ [...]-ša₂-ka [LUGAL]	According to the word of my lord the king

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