Ki 1902-5-10, 26 (Ass. 12)
Assurbanipal library text with short lines.
Transliteration
1' [. . .] ⌈x x⌉ [. . .]
2' [ina ú-r]i?-šá bēl(d+en) ṣ[al?-lu]
3' [ḫar-b]a-qa-nu it-ta-na-áš-⌈šu?⌉ [o]
4' [ad-d]a-ni-ka ḫar-ba-qa-an-[(nu)]
5' [dbēl(en)] ša ṣal-lu la ta-de-ek-[ku-ma]
6' [ana ka-šá]-⌈a?⌉ ša kaspi(kù.babbar) eppuš(dù-uš)-ka li-da-ni-ka š[á? ḫurāṣi(kù.gi)]
7' [a-de-e]-ki-ka a-šak-ka[n . . .]
8' [i-na ḫa-s]i-si-ia ḫu-ṣu-[bu-ki]
9' [a-ma-a]t?-ma ú-qat7-[tú-ka]
10' [. . . l]i-ti-ia šá [ru-ʾa-a-nu?]
11' [perʾū/pelû([n]unuzmeš)-ka? a]-na šarri(lugal) ⌈ ú⌉-[qar-rab (. . .)]
12' [. . .] ⌈x x⌉ [. . .]
Translation
1' [. . .] . . . [. . .]
2' [On the ro]of where Bēl is sl[eeping,]
3' where the [ḫarba]qqannu-bird keeps rising up
4' [Ple]ase, Oh ḫarbaqqannu-bird,
5' Do not wake [up] the sleeping [Bēl!]
6' [For yo]u I will prepare ‘that-of-silver’, your [golden] chicks.
7' [I will wa]ke you up, I will place
8' [your sp]linters(?)[ in my me]mory.
9' [(Even if) I di]e, I will bring [you to an end,]
10' [. . .] my . . . which/of [. . .]
11' I will of[fer your offspring t]o the king [. . .]
12' [. . .] . . . [. . .]
Commentary
3': it-ta-na-áš-⌈šu?⌉ is clear on the tablet. The variant in BM 46293+ r. i 17' reads, however, ḫar-ba-qa-an it-⌈ta⌉-na-a[l?]-⌈ú?⌉ “the ḫarbaqqannu-bird keeps lying down”.
7': After a-šak-ka[n. . .] there is a space for more text, which the parallels do not have.
9': The parallels have a-mat-ma, but the first visible sign here is not KUR, hence, perhaps, [a-ma-a]t-ma.
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. 34065; view on seal.huji.ac.il.