JCS 33, 195 (Narām-Sîn and the Enemy Hordes)

SEAL no. 1544 · BM 17215 (92-7-9, 331) · Epics · Naram-Sin · Sippar (mod. Tell Abu Ḥabbah) · 11 lines · 41 words · 74 signs · 7 Sumerograms

Transliteration

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Col. i
1	qá-ab-lam iš-ta-tu i-na mu-uḫ-ḫi-⌈ša⌉
2	ki-ma kar-mi uš-te-wi
3	⌈ba la/ab NE te?⌉ im du
4	[...] x [...]
(break)

Col. ii and v
(traces)

Col. vi
1’	[...] x x [...]
2’	[x] x ÉRIN GIŠ?.MI x [...] x [...]

Colophon
1	DUB.2.KAM.MA DUB-še-na pí-te-e-ma
2	ŠU Id-da-tum DUB.SAR.TUR
3	ITI.ŠE.GUR₁₀.KU₅ UD.26.KAM
4	mu Am-mi-ṣa-du-qá lugal-e
5	⌈urudu-du₈⌉-maḫ ⌈gal⌉-gal-la

Translation

Col. i

1 He wove battle against it.

2 He turned (it) into a ruin.

3–4 …

(break)

Col. ii

(traces of one sign each in lines 2-3)

Col. v

(traces of one sign each in four lines)

Col vi

1’ ...

2’ troup, shade(?) ...

Colophon

1 Second tablet of “Open the tablet-box”.

2 Written by Iddatum, junior scribe.

3 Month Addaru, 26th day.

4 Year when Ammiṣaduqa, the king,

5 (presented) a very large high copper platform.

Michael P. Streck and Nathan Wasserman, Sources of Early Akkadian Literature (SEAL), seal.huji.ac.il. No commercial use is allowed. Published under CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives). Reproduced unmodified. Cite as SEAL no. 1544; view on seal.huji.ac.il.