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BM 77196 (Comm. 2)

SEAL no. 31687 · BM 77196 (1883-1-18, 2576) · Commentary · Sippar (mod. Tell Abu Ḥabbah) (uncertain)

CDLI no. P461293

Transliteration

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1[. . .] si⸣-pit-ti me-lul-ta [. . .]
2[. . .] ⸢x⸣-te u ri-bi šá te-[. . .]
3[. . .] ⸢x⸣-PAB? : še-eršèr : rik-su [. . .]
4[. . .t]a? : me.me : me-lul-ti : me.m[e …]
5[. . .]-⸢-ma il-li-ku : k[i? . . .]
6[. . .še?-]gu-un-nu-ú : nu-uk-⸢ur?⸣-[tu? . . .]
7[. . .] : mit-ḫu-ṣu : mit-ḫu-ṣ[u . . .]
8[. . .-a]ḫ-ḫu-ú : lìb-bi ⸢x⸣ [. . .]
9[. . .] ⸢x x⸣ [. . .]

Translation

1 [. . .] lamentation, game [. . .]

2 [. . .] . . . and her replacement(?) . . [ . . .]

3 [. . .] . . . ŠÈR, when read šer, (means:) knot [. . .]

4 [. . .] . . ME.ME (means:) play. ME.ME (means:) [ . . .]

5 [. . .] . . and they went (means:) . [. . .]

6 [. . . g]rain(?) (means:) enmi[ty(?) . . .]

7 [. . .] (means:) fight; fight [means: . . .]

8 [. . . br]others (means:) center of . . [ . . .]

9 (traces)

Commentary

Three lemmas in this fragment raise the possibility that this commentary is connected to the DLL: sipittu, mēlultu, and riksu, all key-words in our corpus.

3: riksu should perhaps be translated here not as “bond, knot”, but, as in the DLL, “ceremonial arrangement”.

4: For me.me = mēlulu in Syllable Alphabet A see CAD M/2, 16a.

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. 31687; view on seal.huji.ac.il.