MDP 18, 252

SEAL no. 1834 · Sb 21855 · Funerary Texts · Susa (mod. Shush) · 11 lines · 28 words · 79 signs · 2 Sumerograms

Transliteration

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Obv.
1	i-te-em-du ṣal-la ina qá-bu-⌈re⌉
2	šà ma-ta i-šu immera(UDU) pāna(^giGUR^○) ir-ta-[šu]
3	ù ma-ḫi-ir-šu-nu la i-ba-aš-šu
4	im-ma-t[i]
5	Šu-ší-na-ak iš-šu-ut-ti a-wa-[ta]

Lo. Ed.
6	i-qa-ab-bi
7	iz-za-az a!(Text:e)-na mu-še-ki-l[i-im-ma]
8	iz-za-qa-a[r]
9	a-na-ku-ma er-da er-pe-ta
10	[ṣ]a^○-li-im-t[a^○]
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Translation

1 They have leaned the sleeping-one in the grave

2–4 – those who own the land, who used to get repeatedly a sheep and a basket (of grain) and have no rival in the land.

5–8 Šušinak is speaking in a dream, standing in front of the One-who-darkens and say:

9–10 ‘It is I who led hither the dark cloud!’

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. 1834; view on seal.huji.ac.il.