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SEAL no. 1784 · VAT 17353 · Wisdom Literature · Proverbs · Babylon (mod. Kasr, Amran Ibn Ali, Sahn, Ishin Aswad, Merkes) · 19 lines · 76 words · 157 signs · 6 Sumerograms · bilingual

Lines 1’ – 9’ parallel to BM 38238 rev. 11 – 14 (Cf. Lambert 1960,  263). Contra Lambert 1960, 274 we find this tablet to show clear MB features: /nun/ (ll. 2, 3); /ṭur/ (l. 4); /bì/ (l. 14). Mimation is lacking on ll. 4, 8, 17.     CDLI no. P347232.  

Transliteration

1 [u4 šú-uš]-ru // UD-mu i-ru-ma

2 [im nu]-al-šèg // ša-mu-ú ul iz-nun

3 [im] al-šèg // ša-mu-ú iz-nun-ma

4 [(kuš)e]-sír nu-du8-a // še-na ul ip-ṭur

5 [(íd)Idig]na // i-di-ig-la-at

6 [inim]-ba // i-na qí-bi-RA?-AM?

7 [           ] kár? // iš-ta-ma

8 [   a]-gàr // ú-ga-ra

9 [nu]-si // ul ú-ma-al-li

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10 [             ]-bi? // eṭ-lum ú-ua (text: KU)

11 [             ]-dug4 // iq-bi-ma

12 [          b]a-da-sù // e-li-pa-šu iṭ-ṭe4-bu

13 [            ]x bí-dug4 // a-la-li iq-bi-ma

14 [          b]a-da-kud // si-ka-an-šu it-te-eš-bì-ir

15 [                     ] // ú-ua (text: KU) ù a-a-ru

16 [                   b]í-dug4 // iq-bi-ma

17 [                     ]a-šè // e-li-pa-šu a-na ki-ib-ri        

18 [                     ]-te // iṭ-ṭe4-ḫi 

Translation

1 The day became cloudy,

2 but it did not rain.

3 It rained,

4 but he did not untie his sandal(s).

5-6 The Tigris in his outlet(?)

7 was ...,

8-9 but did not fill the field.

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10-11The young main said: "oh",

12 when his boat was sinking.

13 He said: "hoorah",

14 when his rudder broke.

15-16He said: "oh and hoorah(?)"

17 – his ship reached the shore (all the same).

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. 1784; view on seal.huji.ac.il.