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UET 6/2, 399

SEAL no. 7046 · U.16892D · Incantations · anger · Ur (mod. Tell el-Muqayyar) · 24 lines · 48 words · 135 signs · 7 Sumerograms

CDLI No. P274660. For description of the tablet, see Groneberg 1987, Teil I, 160, n. 22 and recently Ludwig 2009, 11 ("Schultafel"). UET 6/3, p. 33: location "1 Broad Street". Lines 18–24 may be a ritual. Bilingual

Transliteration

1 [ú-zu]-ú-mi ú-z[u-um]

2 [i]-la-ka ri-mi-ni-i[š]

3 [i]š-ta-na-ḫi-iṭ ka-al-ba-n[i-iš]

ki-ma né-ši-im

e-ez a-la-ka

ki-ma ba-ar-ba-ri-im

la-ka-ta ma-ad-mi

is-sú-uḫ ba-aš-ta-am

ša pa-ni-i-šu-ú

10 iḫ-pi qú-li-a-am

11 ša li-bi-šu-ú

12 ap-ri-iš-šu-ú-ma

13 ki-ma ti-tu-ri

14 [l]u-ba e-li-šu

15 ša-pá-al-{IZ/⌈Ú⌉ ZA}šu-ú

16  [I]-di-ig-la-at

17 [na]-ru-um

18 ⌈x⌉ gu-la ša?! ma-tim-{IZ}ma

19 às!(Text: AN)-ni-ik-šum

20 i-gi-gi-šum

21 šum-ma-an l[a] ⌈x⌉ šu? x uz?

22 lu-uk-ru-ú-ba-ma!(Text: AŠ)

23⌈na?⌉-ak-šum

24 [š]a? šu-ṣí-im

Translation

1 Anger! Anger!

2–3 It comes like a wild bull, keeps jumping like a do[g].

4–5 Like a lion, fierce-ranging,

6–7 Like a wolf, quick-running.

8–9 It has removed the splendor of his face.

10–11 It broke the bowl of his heart.

12 I have blocked it!

13–14 Like a bridge may I cross over it!

15–17 Beneath it is the river Tigris.

18 … … of the land.

19 I drew near to it(?)

20 … … …

21 Had it no[t… …]

22 Let me pray!       

23 …

24 [of] taking out.

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. 7046; view on seal.huji.ac.il.