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To Annunītum (Fs. Finet, 41)

SEAL no. 1645 · Di 525 · Literary Letters · Ur-Utu, the Chief Dirge Singer, to Annunītum · Sippar (mod. Tell Abu Ḥabbah) · 21 lines · 72 words · 145 signs · 13 Sumerograms

Transliteration

Obv.

 

1'            ⌈xx⌉ […]

2'            šar ⌈x x⌉ […]

3'            GIŠ MI DU ⌈x⌉ […]

4'            pa-ṭa-ra-am⌉ [i-’ì-il-ta-am]

5'            ša Ur-dUtu galamāḫ(GALA.MAḪ) ⌈An-nu-ni-[tum]

6'            a-na be-el-ti-ia ra-i-ma-at

7'            na-pí-iš-ti qí-bí-ma

8'            um-ma Ur-dUtu warad(ÌR)-ki-ma

9'            ki-ma be-el-ti

10'          ⌈i⌉-[du]

 

Rev.

11'            wardum(SAG.ÌR) ⌈ša a-na be-lí-šu

12'            amtum(SAG.GÉME) ša a-na be-el-ti-ša

13'            ḫi-ṭa-am gi-la-ta-am

14'            la ú-ba-la-am ú-ul i-ba-aš-ši

15'            ra-i-ma⌉-at na-pí-iš-ti at-ti

16'            a-sa-⌈ka-am ša dAdad(IM) dA!?-a

17'            MIN/A!? ⌈x(x)⌉ ⌈GIŠ?⌉ MI ú-ša-ki-lu-ni-[im]

18'            dNin-šubur ra-im-ki

19'            dŠamaš(UD) ⌈dx⌉ [......]

20'            d[.........]

 

Left edge

21'            a-na Ur-dUtu wardi(ÌR)-ša ar-ḫi-iš

Translation

Obv.

1'                ...

2'                ...

3'                ...           

4'                to undo [the liability]

5'                of Ur-Utu, the Chief Dirge Singer of Annunītum:

6'                ‘To my mistress who loves

7'                life say:

8'                Thus (says) Ur-Utu, your servant:

9'                As my mistress

10'              knows

 

Rev.

11'              a male slave who, against his lord,

12'              a female slave who, against her mistress,

13'–14'       does not commit a fault (of negligence) (or) a fault (of a misdeed)

14'              does not exist.

15'              You are the one who loves life!

16'–17'       …, they have caused me to transgress the taboo of Adad (and) ⌈Aya⌉.

18'              Ninšubur, whom you love,

19'              Šamaš (and) …

20'              … .’

 

Left edge

21'              To Ur-Utu, her servant, quickly.  

 

Commentary

See Fechner 2010.

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. 1645; view on seal.huji.ac.il.