BE 31, 53

SEAL no. 1664 · MIO 668 · Miscellaneous · Unknown · 20 lines · 60 words · 96 signs · 2 Sumerograms · bilingual

Transliteration

Obv.

1 ⌈x⌉-zu ma₆(ME) ti-il

2 ⌈ma?⌉ a al ⌈si?⌉

3 ⌈ir?⌉-má-ka ⌈a?⌉-⌈li?⌉ ⌈x⌉

4 i-bi-ti ⌈i⌉-[ta-la-]⌈ak⌉

5 a-ad-zu ma₆(ME) ⌈ti?⌉-⌈il?⌉

6 ba-ri-[(x)]-⌈a?⌉

7 a-bu-ka a-[li] ⌈šu⌉

8 a-ba-bi ì-ta-ṣi

9 a-ad-zu i-du

10 en-na ma/ba?-eš

11 ⌈a-bu-ka x x⌉

12 ?

Rev.

1 ⌈x⌉ ni ú ⌈x/ul?⌉ [...]

2 gú ni in si? ba ab

3 nam? ⌈x/har?⌉ ga?/bi? ti bi

4 pa-ab/dub-ba šà mu

5 u₄-kúr lu/dib/ú ú kù mu

6 sag-gar e-ru-um

7 ú-la-ḫa-ad

8 a zu mi zu/ma? lum?/gìr?

Translation

Obv.

…

3 Where is your …?

4 He w[ent] out of the house.

7 Where is your father?

8 He left for the gate.

…

11 Your father …

Rev.

6 The grinding slab

7 …

Commentary

General: Wasserman 2003a, 192 no. 40 classifies the text as hymn. However, there is no clear indication as to the text genre. P. Michalowski (email April 1st, 2013) doubts that the text is bilingual and suggests an incantation in an unkown language.

Obv. 4: ib-bīti after suggestion of N. Rudik. ittalak after suggestion of M. P. Streck.

Obv. 7–8: Reading and translation N. Rudik.

Rev. 6: Reading and translation N. Rudik

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. 1664; view on seal.huji.ac.il.