To Ištar (AUAM 73.2645b)

SEAL no. 26416 · AUAM 73.2645b · Literary Letters · to Ištar · Nippur (mod. Nuffar) (uncertain) · 12 lines · 34 words · 66 signs

Transliteration

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Obv.
1	[a]-na be-el-⸢ti-ia eš₁₈-tár⸣
2	[qí]-⸢bí-ma⸣
3	um-ma a-bi-tu-ku-ul-[ti amat]-⸢ki^?-ma⸣
4	⸢ki-ma di/ki x i^?/tum⸣ ù ⸢ni? ⸣ [ ] x
5	be-el-⸢ti at⸣-ti ⸢ša⸣ [ ] x
6	[ ] xxx [ ]
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Rev.

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7	⸢ša tu-ba-al-li⸣-[ṭi(?)]
8	la te-eg-gi-i-⸢ma⸣
9	ma-ḫar ^dUTU qá-ta-ia
10	a-na be-el-ti-ia
11	li-ik-ru-ba

Translation

Obv.

1 To my Lady Eštar
2 speak,
3 thus (says) Abī-tukul[tī, your(?) [maid(?).]
4 That/Because ... and [...],
5 you are my Lady, who [...].

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6 [As to your maid(?) (...)],
7 whom you kept in good health,
8 you must not be careless, so
9 before Šamaš both my cleansed hands

10 to my Lady
11 they shall pray.

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. 26416; view on seal.huji.ac.il.