Si 741 (+) Si 834 (RT 7)
N eat Neo-Babylonian script, probably not later than 600bce. George noted regarding Si 741: “surface flake from near left edge. Obv.” Regarding Si 824 [wrong number]: “v. probably part of the same tablet [as 741] from near bottom left corner of obv.; Rev. flaked off.” Regarding Si 834: Central fragment preserving a small portion of the left edge, only one column preserved.
Transliteration
Si 834
1' [. . .] x [. . .]
2' [. . .] x eš/MEŠ ⌈ú⌉ x [. . .]
3' [. . .] ina bāb(ká) rābiṣi(máš[kim)?]
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4' 18 x ⌈kam?⌉ [. . .]
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5' rik-s[u ri]k-su šá si-pit-⌈tu4⌉ mi-l[u-la-a-ti šá dmarduk(amar.utu)]
6' at-t[i um]-⌈me⌉-e dištar(inanna) bābili(tin.tirki) ba-ni-t[u4?. . .]
7' ina ⌈é⌉.tùr.kalam.ma ina kisalli(kisal) [. . .]
8' ana giškirî(kiri6) ⌈ra-mi⌉-ki ki-i ú-šìr-ru TÁK-x [. . .]
9' ⌈d⌉zar-pa-⌈ni⌉-⌈tu4⌉ iq-ni-ma i-te-li ana z[iq-qur-ra-ti ...]
10' [(x)] x ina ⌈pāni(igi?)⌉-⌈šu?⌉ A[N? . . .]
11' [x]-x bābili(tin.⌈tir⌉[k]i) ina é.sag.íl na-di-ri [. . .]
12' [i]na ⌈né⌉-reb [. . .]
13' [an-da-aš] ⌈mi⌉-ri šá ú-sal-laq an-da-aš mi-ri šá l[i?. . .]
14' [te-ba-ku al-lak ultu(ta?) n]é-reb dmadānu(di.ku5) a-di p[āni(igi) dbēliya(en)-iá?]
15' [. . .] x dzar-pa-ni-tu4 d!ba-ni-ti [. . .]
16' [. . .] x x-⌈a?⌉-⌈ti⌉ dbēl(en) šu-ra-ku ina a-pa-⌈a?⌉-[ti . .]
17' [. . .] x-⌈kan?⌉-ni ID-x [. . .]
18' [. . .] x [. . .]
Si 741
1' [. . .] GIŠ x [. . .]
2' [. . .] ⌈x⌉ ⌈giš⌉má ki us ⌈a⌉-⌈na⌉ a ⌈a?⌉ x [. . .]
3' [. . .] x ⌈ma⌉-al-di nāri(i7) [. . .]
4' [. . .] x x KAN? NI? šal-šu-ma at-ti šá ka-ṣi u4-mu [. . .]
5' [. . .] ⌈a⌉-pa-ti a-na tar-ṣi nāri(i7) [. . .]
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6' [. . . U4].4 (or: 5).KAM šá ka-ṣi u4-mu [. . .]
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7' [rik-su rik]-su šá si-pit-tu4 mi-lu-la-a-ti šá dmarduk(amar.ut[u) . . .]
8' [. . .-i]d šá dšar-rat-parakki(bára) ina idi(da) bīt(é) dse-bet-te-⌈e⌉ [. . .]
9' [e-ka-a-ni l]i-mu-ra-ki šitta(2-ta) īnāya(igiII-a-a) bar-bar-a-t[e ...]
10' [ina bāb(ká) š]ūti ([i]mu18.lu) šá é.dúr.kù[.ga? . . .]
11' [a-na é/e4-qu]-⌈le⌉-⌈e⌉ te-ba-ki al-lak itti(ki)-ia al-ka l[ú?bābilāyī(tin.tirki.meš?)]
12' [. . .] d]⌈bēl⌉(⌈en⌉) ⌈ultu(ta)⌉ pān(igi) d[bēlti(gašan)-iá adi(en) é.sal.sukkal]
13' [. . .] x x [. . .]
Translation
Si 834
1' . . .
2' . . .
3' . . . at the gate of the rābiṣu. . .
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4' Eighteen . . .
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5' Ceremony, ceremony of lamentation, the games of Marduk.
6' “You, oh mother, Ištar of Babylon, the beautiful one . . .”
7' In the Eturkalama temple, in the . . . courtyard,
8' “To your beloved orchard, when I went down, you . . . [. . .]”
9' When Zarpanītu got jealous, she went up to the zig[gurat . . .]
10' . . . in front of him . . .
11' . . . of(?) Babylon, in the Esagila temple, wild . . .
12' At the entrance of . . .
13' [“the king] of her breeding bulls(?) will go up! May the the king] of her breeding bulls . . .”
14' [“I will rise (and) go from the ent]rance of Madānu, to the pr[esence of Bēltiya.]
15' . . . Zarpanitu, the beautiful one [. . .]
16' . . . Bēl, I am leaning from the windows. . .
17' . . .
18' . . .
Si 741
1' ...
2' . . . the barge to/for . . .
3' . . . near the river...
4' . . . it is the third one. You(f.) are of the evening...
5' . . . the windows (looking at) the vicinity of the river...
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6' . . . the fourth day, that of the evening ...
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7' [Ceremony, cer]emony of the lamentation, the games of Marduk...
8' . . . of Šarrat-parakki alongside the temple of the Divine Heptad...
9' [“Where sha]ll they see you? (my two eyes are she-wolves)”,
10' [In the] southern [gate] of the Edurkuga [. . .]
11' “(On) the road of Kū]ta – I will rise (and) go! Come (with me) Babylonians!”
12' [. . .] Bēl from before Bēltiya to the Esalsukkal.
13' . . .
Commentary
Si 834
16': šurrāku ina a-pa-⌈a?⌉-[ti . .]: šurru is typically used with windows (“to lean over”), see CAD Š/3, 357, 2b.
Si. 741
4': Probably referring to Ištar as “The Lady of the Evening”. See BM 40090+ iii 28: ta-bé-e dbēltu(gašan)? šá ka-ṣi ūm(u4) <5?>.kam) “(This is) the getting up of the lady on the evening of the <5th> day”.
5': For a-pa-ti, see Frahm/Jiménez 2015, 329. With Si 843: 16' šu-ra-ku ina a-pa-⌈a?⌉-[ti . .], the matter seems to be solved, namely apātu “windows”
8': Šarrat-parakki appears in the temple ritual texts from Uruk (KAR 132 i 29, ii 9, see Linssen 2004, 201–202) and TU 42 (Linssen 2004, 238. Cf. also Krul 2018, 68). This deity appears in the company of other divine ladies that are “manifestations of Ištar or as inhabitants of Urukean temples” (Westenholz 2013, 126). – dSebettê: More than one Divine Heptad are known, see George 1992: 365f. This one is perhaps related to the astral manifestation of Ištar, namely the Pleiades. Tintir V 78 and 87 mention the Street of the Divine Heptad in Babylon and “12 stations of the Divine Heptad”, respectively (George 1992, 68). In the The Divine Directory of Nippur of the Nippur Compendium V b16, the Sebettû is listed among other deities in the temple of Gula (George 1992, 158 and Linssen 2004: xxx). For other attestations of group of seven, or nine female deities in various cultic contexts at Babylon, see George 2000, 29. In another DLL text, K 7817 r. i 4', a group of ladies (ninmeš) is described as ki-i se-bet “like/as the seven . . .” Interestingly, the same phrase appears in VAT 663 iii 15 (SBH p. 145): ki-i si-BIT-x [...] following šá dbe-let-dingermeš [...]).
10': E-dur-kuga is the dais of the Igigi at Babylon (George 1992, 60, 68 and comm. on p. 323; George 1993, 234). It is often mentioned with the E-ka-gula (e.ká.gu.la), the dais of the Anunnaki (George 1992, 60 and comm. on p. 323). Note barag da-nun-na-ki in BM 40090+ i 8'.
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