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SEAL no. 1621 · MAH 16056 · Love Literature · Ammi-ditana: 4 irtum-compositions · Kiš (mod. Tell el-Uhaymir) (uncertain) · 61 lines · 287 words · 475 signs · 65 Sumerograms

colophon: 4 i-ra-a-tum. Kiš, as a suggested provenance of the tablet - see Groneberg 1999, 172. CDLI No. P424004  

Transliteration

Obv.

col. i

i 1        [e?]-? ra-a-mi-i° šu°-qú-úr

i 2        ù! na-ši i-ni!-ib-šu-ú°

i 3        šu/ku?-[x (ras.)]-ul ú?-ma/du?

i 4        ki-ma ḫa-aš-ḫu-ri si-ma?-ni

i 5        ma-li ri-ša-a-tim m[u]-unm[i?-x?]

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i 6        ra-a-mi a-ṣe°-ri

i 7        uš-ta-ṣi-a ù a-bi-à-at

i 8        ṣi-ḫa-ti-ia a-la-am-mi

i 9        ù sú!(Text: BA)-ka-an-ni-nu

i 10      uš-te-(ras.)e-li

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i 11      ra-a-mi ša ṣe-e-ri ḫa-bi-i-lu

i 12      li-te-er-ru-ni-im-ma

i 13      ṣi-ḫa-ti-ia ta°-la-am-mi

i 14      ù° nu-ka-ri-ib°-bu

i 15      li-ib-la-am

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i 16      qú-pí ad-di eṭ-la-am-ma°

i 17      ù sú-ka-an-ni-na

i 18      lu°-uṣ-ba-at-ma

i 19      ša ṣi-ḫa-ti-ia

i 20      dNa-na!(Text: ŠI)-ia!(Text: IṢ) tu-ú-ma-al-la-a[m]

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i 21      lu? ir?-ra-{ṢI}-am-ma

i 22      ù⌉⌈ib?-ra-am ku-ra(over ras.)-am-ma? [x x]

i 23      [su?]-uk-ka-al-lu si-ik-k[a-tam]

i 24      [x x]-x x ḫa-sa-a-si li?-[...]

i 25      [ra?]-mi-i-k[i?

i 26      […] x ra […]

 

col. ii

            (Only traces of the first 14 lines)

 

Rev. 

col. iii

            (c. 11 lines missing)

iii 12'   ir [… …]

iii 13'   x [... …]

iii 14'   a-ta-x

iii 15'   ša t[a?... …]

iii 16'   uš-x [… …]

iii 17'   ši-[…]

            (c. 4 lines missing)

 

iii 22'   x-[... ...]

iii 23'   m[a? ... ...]

iii 24'   a-na x

iii 25'   a?-li-ik-ku x [... ...]

 

Up. Ed.

iii 26'   li-ib-ba a [... ...]

iii 27'   i-ra-i-ma? [... ...]

iii 28'   ša i-di-a [... ...]

iii 29'   an-na ku-ú[r? ... ...]

iii 30'   šum-ma uš [... ...]

 

col. iv

iv 1'     […] x im?- ma [x x]

iv 2'     […] ap?-sa-a-ša/ta [x x]

iv 3'     [...] ša ar ra PI° x

iv 4'     […] x? uš-šu-ú?

iv 5'     […] ri-tu!-mu-um-[ma]

iv 6'     [e-gi]-ir-re-e šu-ul-mi-i-ka

iv 7'     ù da-ar ba-la-ṭi-i-ka

iv 8'     [l]i-iš-ru-uk-ku Ištár Am-mi-di-ta-na

iv 9'     e-di-iš-ma° ba°-al-ṭa-a-ša?

iv 10'   ra-im-tum li°<-ib>-ši i-li-ib-bi-ka

iv 11'   i-da-mi-iq-ti šu-qí-ir°-ši

iv 12'   li-im-da li-im-da ši-ta-a-la

iv 13'   ma-a šu-ra-su in-ḫé ú-ia

iv 14'   ù ṣe-ḫé-er ra-a-mi

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iv 15'   giš-gi4 -gál-bi

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iv 16'   4 i-ra-a-tum

iv 17'   iš-ka-ar e-eš ra-a-mi {ŠU QÚ}

iv 18'   šu-qú-úr

Translation

col. i.

i 1                Where is my loved one? He is so dear!

i 2                And does he bear his fruit?

i 3                …

i 4                Like apples of the ripening period (or: the month of Simān(?))

i 5                Filled with joy is the bed of [my lover(?)]

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i 6–7            My love had to go out to the steppe,

i 7                (while) I spend (here) the night.

i 8                I embrace my delight,

i 9–10          but the dove rose aloft.

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i 11–12        My love of the steppe, may the trappers return (him) back to me!

i 13              You will embrace my delights.

i 14–15        May the gardener bring (him) to me!

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i 16              I have thrown my coop on the young man,

i 17–18        so that I may catch the dove;

i 19–20        (The coop) of my delights Nanāya(?) will fill for me.

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i 21              Indeed, he is loved,

i 22              and the short friend(?) […]

i 23–24        The minister [...] the peg.

i 24              ... to remember […]

i 25              […] your(f.) [lo]ved one […]

i 26              …

                    (col. ii – traces only)

 

Rev. 

col. iii

iii 12'–23'    …

iii 24'           To […

iii 25'           I went to you […]

 

Up. Ed.

iii 26'           The heart I(?)[]

iii 27'           He loved and […]

iii 28'           who knows... […]

iii 29'           Indeed …[…]

iii 30'           If …[…]

 

col. iv

iv 1'             …

iv 2'             …

iv 3'             …

iv 4'             …

iv 5'             […] lovemaking,

iv 6'–7'        An omen for your well-being and your everlasting life!

iv 8'–9'        May Ištar grant to you, Ammī-ditāna, her life anew!

iv 10'–11'    May the loved one be in your heart, (may) you cherish her favorably!

iv 12'           Learn(pl.), learn(pl.) and ask one another:

iv 13'–14'    “(though) its beginning is sighs of woe, still young is my love!”.

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iv 15'           Its antiphon.

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iv 16'           4 irtum songs

iv 17'–18'    (Of) the series “Where is my loved one, he is so dear”.

Commentary

For commentary, see Wasserman 2016, 107–109.

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. 1621; view on seal.huji.ac.il.