BM 47032 (Bab. 11)
A single column of Neo-Babylonian (school?) text, preserving the beginning of the obverse and the end of the reverse. The tablet has the size and shape of a Neo-Babylonian administrative text. The concluding catchline brings BM 47675 obv. 1. Thus, it is possible that the two tablets belong in a series written by the same author. Leichty et al. 2019, 646.
Transliteration
Obv.
1 e lúbārû(ḫal) <ina> lìb-bi e-bi-iḫ ak-⌈ka⌉-ʾ-i áš-⌈kun⌉-ka ṭè-⌈e⌉-mu
2 ina šá e-bi-iḫ-ti-iá ana libbi(šà) uznī(geštugmin)-ka ú-làḫ-ḫiš(ras.)
3 ana ekurrāti(é.kurmeš) šá māti(kur) ba-ru-ú šá ta-me-ek-ku-ú mi-ke-e-ma
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4 ana šá-a-šú la ta-me-ek-ki-šú ana ēkurru(é.kur) <é>-⸢tur⸣-⸢kalam?( ras.)⸣- ⸢ma?⸣ ⸢x?⸣ [(x)]
5 ēkurru(⌈é.kur⌉) ili(dingir)-⌈šú!(text: UD) ma⌉-g[ir-šú bēl(en)-šú ana lìb-bi-šú mit-gur]
Rev.
1' ni-ip-šú ⌈rīqī(šimḫi?.a?)⌉ x [. . .]
2' ni-ip-šú gišerēni(eren) mit-gur16 ár-⌈ḫu⌉ x x x [. . .] / kul-⌈lu-lu⌉ x x x [o]
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3' dsîn(30) ár-ḫu dsîn(30) ár-ḫa-am-ma ši-me-ru-ma šá-mu-⌈ú⌉
Translation
Obv.
1 Oh diviner, in Ebiḫ, how did I issue to you the (divine) order?
2 With ‘My-(goddess)-of-the-Ebiḫ’ I whispered into your ears.
3 (Any other) the temples of the land, Oh diviner, neglect as you wish,
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4 But do not neglect this one, the temple Eturk[alama]!
5 The temple – its god, its amen[able one, its lord fully agrees to it.]
Rev.
1' The odor of aromatics(?) . . .
2' The odor of cedar, which is in harmony(?) with the moon . . ., is covered . . .
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3' Oh Sîn – the moon, Oh Sîn – monthly the ring of heavens.
Commentary
2: The parallels in K 6082+ i' 14 and VS 24, 101 ii' 12' both have ina šá pa-ḫu-ti-ka. It appears that the scribe of our text had difficulties with the hapax šapaḫūtu, and replaced it with ša ebiḫtiya, after the previous line. This reading makes less sense.
3–4: The separation line between ll. 3 and 4 is mistaken, since the entire passage (ll. 1–5) belong together, as prove the parallel K. 6082+ ii' 12'–18'.
r. 1': From Fincke’s copy, the reading šimḫi.a “various aromatics,” looks more likely than šimli “juniper.”
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. 33322; view on seal.huji.ac.il.