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CMAwR Text 8.37 (Q005082)
Incantation-Ritual
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| Designation | CMAwR Text 8.37 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005082 |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Genre | Incantation-Ritual |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 8.37:1 | [att]ā nūru Sîn nann[ār]u šamê u erṣeti | You are the light of heaven and earth, |
| 8.37:2 | [bēl] agî ilu šūpû ālik maḫri | lord of the universe, creator of the gods, exalted leader |
| 8.37:3 | [nā]din agî ana šarrāni nādin zēri ana amīlūti | Giver of wisdom to the mountains, giver of anger to the people |
| 8.37:4 | [i]lu ša qibīssu lā uttakkaru | the god whose command cannot be changed |
| 8.37:5 | [a]nnašu ilu mamman lā innû | No god can overturn it |
| 8.37:6 | Sîn ina napāḫīka dalāti ina šupalkîk[a] | Sîn, at your rising, life in your land |
| 8.37:7 | ana napāḫīka nišū ḫadâ | for a napaḫi-lament, nišu-lupine |
| 8.37:8 | ṣalmāt qaqqadi kalîš rīšāka | the head of the whole world, your love |
| 8.37:9 | ušāpâka nišū tenēšēt[u] | Your utterance is the life of the people |
| 8.37:10 | ša šerra zummâ mutūta ibaššī-ma | Whose life is eternal, who has died in the past |
| 8.37:11 | eṭlu ša apla lā <īšû> usappāka-ma | (Sum) The young man, who is not able to see (Akk) He who is unable to see, who cannot see |
| 8.37:12 | [tanad]dinšu šuma tanabbi šumšu | If you give him, that man |
| 8.37:13 | [b]ūl Šakkan kalûšu iqūlakk[a] | O Šakkan, all of the people have gathered around you. |
| 8.37:14 | [saḫ]rūka nammaššû ša ṣēri | saḫrû-plant, nammašu-plant of the mountains |
| 8.37:15 | [izizz]am-ma Sîn bēl tarbaṣi u supūri | Rise up, O Sîn, lord of the netherworld and the underworld, |
| 8.37:16 | [muštēšer r]îti u mašqīti | the one who guides my extispicy and my offspring |
| 8.37:17 | [x-x-x (x)]-in šu-ne-ta ba-an-da-⸢kar⸣ | ... from his hand he struck |
| 8.37:18 | [KA].⸢INIM⸣.MA ana sinništi ša kišpī īpušu pašāri | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer to a woman who has performed witchcraft |
| 8.37:19 | [ṣalam] sinništi ša ṭīdi tabanni ana maḫar Sîn tulzāz serqa | Release my sin, that which you have caused to be released, before Sîn, accept my prayer. |
| 8.37:20 | ana maḫar Sîn tasarraq ana Sîn kīam taqabbi | You strew before Sîn, you say thus: |
| 8.37:21 | sinništu annītu ša yâši kišpī īpuša | This woman, who has performed witchcraft against me, |
| 8.37:22 | lū mītat lū balṭat kišpūša arkīša lillikū-ma | Let either a dead man or a living man escape from your witchcraft, so that |
| 8.37:23 | annīta tamannu-((ma)) būrta teḫerri ana libbi būrti balta tanaddi | You recite this (incantation) three times, you add (it) to the inside of the incantation. |
| 8.37:24 | buppānīša tasaḫḫapši | you sweep her cheeks, |
| 8.37:25 | ana muḫḫi mê irammuk epera ikattam-ma inêš | He bathes on top of water, he touches the earth, and then he will recover. |
| 8.37:26 | šaṭir bari šaṭār Aššur-šākin-šumi mār Šumāya šangî Aššur u Nergal | Šatbir bari š. Ašrā-ṣcvumi m. (Sum) My (own) land, my land, the mountain (Akk) The mountain, the river, the mountains, the earth, and Nergal |
| 8.37:27 | [š]a ana Nabû bēlu rabû bēl kullat bēl bēlī bēlīšu | To Nabû, the great lord, the l[ord of the whole world], the king of the lands, his lands |
| 8.37:28 | [takl]u tākilka ul ibâš Nabû Kalkal kallāpu dandannu | You are strong, but there is no support for you, Nabû, Kalkal, the kallāpu-demon, and Anu |
| 8.37:29 | [EN₂ bēlu nannāru kullat bi]nût Asar | Incantation: “Because of the goddess Nanna, all the creatures of Asar, |
| 8.37:30 | [erṣetu kīma ḫirīti] ana apsî adirtī lišdu[d] | May the four quarters (of the world) rejoice like a mountain in the Apsu. |
| 8.37:31 | [lā ešrūtu limḫurū] adirātīya | May my sins be forgotten, |
| 8.37:32 | [anāku ana sullêka aktamis maḫarka] lūbib | I have prayed to you for your well-being, that I may eat your supreme food |
| 8.37:33 | [KA.INIM.MA ...] ⸢SUEN⸣.NA.⸢KAM⸣ | [Wording (of an incantation) to ...] esuen-plant |
| 8.37:34 | [DU₃.DU₃.BI ... ṭīd ušal]li nāri teleqqe | Its ritual: ... you take a censer of juniper |
| 8.37:35 | [... tu]škên | ... you set up |
| 8.37:36 | [...] ... [...] |
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