BM 32374

SEAL no. 37730 · BM 32374 · Rituals · Babylon (mod. Kasr, Amran Ibn Ali, Sahn, Ishin Aswad, Merkes)

Transliteration

1' [. . .] ⌈x⌉ [. . .]

2' [mam-ma-an ši-pir ni-kil-tú là] ippušū(dù-šú) ana [ka-a-šú]

3' [šarru(lugal) u šakkanakku(gìr.níta)] la i-maḫ-ḫaṣ lēt(te)-ka

4' [lu ši-pir ši-pir-ku] ana u₄-mu ṣa-[a-tu₄]

5' [šarru(lugal) u šakkanakku(gìr.níta)] šá i-maḫ-ḫaṣ ⌈lēt(te)⌉-[ka]

6' [šarru(lugal) nakir(kúr)-šú-nu ma-am-ma] ⌈liš⌉-kun dabdû(bad₅.bad₅)-⌈šú⌉-[nu]

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7' [30 šumātu(mu) minûssu(šid-bi) šá ina muḫḫi(ugu) ṭ]uppi(i]m.dub)

8' [. . .] ⌈x x x⌉

Translation

1' (Traces)

2' [Let no one] treat [you deceivingly].

3' Let neither [king nor governor] stri[ke your cheek].

4' [May your work be a work] for etern[ity].

5'–6' [The king or the governor] who strikes your cheek, [may a king who is their enemy] defeat th[em].

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7'–8' [A total number of 30 lines is on the t]ablet [. . .]

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. 37730; view on seal.huji.ac.il.