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KAL 3, 75

SEAL no. 1637 · VAT 10825 · Love Literature · Assur (mod. Qalʿat Sharqat) · 32 lines · 232 words · 253 signs · 55 Sumerograms

Transliteration

Obv.

col. i

i 1              [… … … … … …] man?

i 2              [… … … … … …] (blank)

i 3              [… … … … … …]-te

i 4              [… … … … … …] (blank)

i 5              [… … … … … …] PÀRmeš-ki

i 6              [… … … … … …ka]-a-ši

i 7              [… … … … … …] (blank)

i 8              [… … … … … …] x

i 9              [… … … … … …] x

                  (Rest broken)

 

col. ii

ii 1             i+na UD-me-[š]u-ma sinništu(MUNUS) ba-ni-t[u…]

ii 2             ḫa-di-a nišū(UNmešri-šu bal-[ú?...]

ii 3             ri-šat ekal(É.GAL)-ni lí a-a-di […]

ii 4             gišimmaru(gišG[IŠ]IMMAR) ú-ḫi?-ni a-na-ku a-[…]

ii 5             é/ú? [… …]

ii 6             i-[r]i-šu tal-ta-lu ia-a-t[i?... ...]

ii 7             [a]l!?-la-ak [… … …]

ii 8             i?-[a?-nu?]-ba-ma giš?a-š[u?-u?... …]

ii 9             [(x)] ekallu(É.GAL)-lu4 ri-[šat?]

ii 10           [ši?]-kinpānī(IGImeš)-ka DINGIR? […]

ii 11           [na]m-ra-ku ú […]

ii 12           [(x)] x x [… …. …]

 

Rev.

col. iii

iii 1'–7'      (To be published by Stefan Jakob)

iii 8'           [x x] kuu m[i?-… …]

iii 9'           [a]r?-ki bu-uk-r[i?... …]

iii 10'         [(blank)] lamassata(dLAMMA)-ta [… …]

iii 11'         as-mat ki-i il-lu-ur ṣēri(EDIN) ki-i šu-bi[l-te ša⌈dINNIN?

iii 12'         ša si-ma-a-ni bu-ni ri-šat ru-púškibrāti(UBmeš)

iii 13'         šalummatu(SU.LIM)-ma a-na-ku a-na šumēli(GÙB) TE RA ŠI T[E? DING]IR?meš ni-bit Aš-šur

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iii 14'         [x] ur?-qar mārat(DUMU.MUNUS) Aš-šur ta-kar-rab a-[na?...]

iii 15'         x ka-ak-ki bēl(EN) šarrāni(MANmeš)-ni dI[š?-tar? ...]

iii 16'         [x] ta-ši-it ḫa-si-is ta-ši-i[m?-te? …]

iii 17'         x x le-ʾu-ti-ka DINGIR? [… …]

 

Up. Ed.

Up. ed. 1'   […] lìb-bi-ia mam-ma [… … …]

Up. ed. 2'   x x [… …] x x x [(x)] sa-ap-pi-[…]

Up. ed. 3'   [… …] la [… …]

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Up.ed. 4'    109 šumī(MU[meš])

                  (Rest uninscribed)

Translation

col. i

                    (too broken to translate)

col. ii

ii 1               On this very day the beautiful woman […],

ii 2               They were joyful, the people. The […] were exultant, saf[e and sound].

ii 3               The celebration of (our?) palace, the joy of [...],

ii 4               I will […] the fresh dates (from?) the date-palm.

ii 5               ...

ii 6               The scent, the pollen of date-palm, over me […]

ii 7               I shall g[o…]

ii 8               The pine trees are thri[v]ing [….]

ii 9               The palace, the cel[ebration of…]

ii 10             The appearance of your face, Oh god! […]

ii 11             I am shining .. [ ]

ii 12             [(x)] x x]

 

col. iii

iii 1'–7'        (To be published by Stefan Jakob)

iii 8'             …

iii 9'             Behind the son of [… …]

iii 10'           A protecting goddess [… …]

iii 11'           She is luscious like an illūru-flower of the field, like an ea[r of barley of] Ištar,

iii 12'           (an ear) of appropriate time, (of) beauty, the joy of the width(?) of the (four) quarters of the world!

iii 13'           There is radiance. I will approach to the left(?) … the gods invoked by Aššur.

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iii 14'           […] the daughter of Aššur gives blessings to […]

iii 15'           […] the weapons of the lord of kings, Ištar [will…]

iii 16'           […] … wise in discernme[nt…]

iii 17'           … your power, of god […]

 

Up. Ed.

Up. ed. 1'    […] my heart, whoever/nobody […]

Up. ed. 2'    … […] wasteful […]

Up. ed. 3'    …

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Up. ed. 4'    109 lines.

Commentary

 For commentary, see Wasserman 2016, 117–118. 

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. 1637; view on seal.huji.ac.il.