BM 47675 (Bab. 12)
The tablet has the shape of a Neo-Babylonian administrative text, and maybe, like BM 47032, could be a school exercise. Fairly well written. Resumes the catchline of BM 47032 and could be written by the same scribe. Leichty et al. 2019, 668.
Transliteration
Obv.
1 ⌈d⌉sîn(30) ár-ḫu dsîn(30) ár-⌈ḫa-am-ma ši-me⌉-[ru-ma šá-mu-ú]
2 ⌈ù⌉ é!-tùr ekal(é.gal)(ras.) in-ṣa-ab-tu4 ⌈šá⌉? ⌈ùr?⌉ [. . .]
3 ⌈in⌉-ṣa-ab-tu4 šá ⌈pa?⌉-ḫal-li x [. . .]
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4 ⌈d⌉zar-pa-ni-tu4 a-na giš⌈kirî(kiri6)⌉ <ur>-⌈rad? ana?lú⌉?nu[k]aribbi(⌈nu⌉?.[gišk]iri6?) [il-ta-na-as-si]
5 [. . . a-n]a? ⌈lú⌉nuka[ribbi](nu.giški[ri6]) [. . .] x x [. . .]
6 [mi?-n]u?-ú šam!-⌈mu?-ka⌉ [šá ru-u8-ú-a . . .]
7 [x]-ti giškirî(kiri6) x [. . .]
8 [ul?]-li-il-⌈ki⌉ [. . .]
(one empty line)
9 [x] ⌈x x⌉-tu4 ⌈bīt(é) gišalli(gisal)?⌉ [. . .]
10 [x x x] x [. . .]
Rev.
r. 1' [(áš-šú-tú)] ḫa-da-a-ti ⌈áš-šú⌉-<tú > ⌈qal-la⌉-[a]-⌈ti šá? ù⌉? [(. . .)]
r. 2' [a?]-⌈lak nāru(íd) ul-li-il-⌈ki⌉ ⌈x x x x⌉ [. . .]
r. 3' (Empty space at the beginning of the line) ⌈x x x x⌉ [. . .]
r. 4' [x] x x ⌈UR?⌉ ki-ma šá gišsikkāni(⌈zi⌉.gan) li-še-ri-⌈x⌉ [. . .]
r. 5' ⌈a⌉-n[a? . . .] ⌈lú?⌉[m]alāḫī([m]á.laḫ4) nak-lu-tu4 li-še-r[i? . . .]
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r. 6' a-lak ⌈nāri(íd?) x x x x x x x ⌈lìb-bi⌉ ⌈a⌉-⌈na⌉ [. . .]
Translation
Obv.
1 Oh Sîn – the moon, Oh Sîn – the ring of heavens month by month,
2 And the Etur(kalamma), the palace – the earring which/of . . .
3 The ring which [. . .] the thigh [. . .]
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4 Zarpanītu goes down to the garden. [She keeps calling] the gardener,
5 [. . . t]o(?) the gardener [. . .:]
6 “– What is your plant, [that of my friend?” . . .]
7 [. . .] the orchard [. . .]
8 [I] have purified you [. . .]
9 . . ., the house of the rudder(?) [. . .]
10 [. . .] . . . [. . .]
Rev.
1' “Is marriage (for) the happy ones(f.)? Marriage (is for) slave girls!” . . [. . .]
2' “The river’s flow has purified you.” . . .
3' . . . [. . .]
4' [. . .] like(?) the one of(?) the rudder may he/she make enter(?). . . [. . .]
5' To [. . .] the skillful sailors may her . . .[. . .]
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6' The river’s flow … heart to. . . .
Commentary
r. 1': The incipit of this recitation concludes BM 47032. Could the two tablets been written by the same scribe?
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. 33353; view on seal.huji.ac.il.