RA 70, 135/137
Marduk-Ea type. CDLI P249267 ("Ur III Administrative").
Transliteration
1 [én-é-nu-ru]
2 [munus du-da-a-ni ma-gi4 a mi-ni-ri]
3 [… …]
4 [… munus du-da-a-ni ma-gi4 a mi-ni]-ri
[…] ki-ma e-le-pí i-te-i-il
5 [munus du-da-a-ni ma-gi4 a mi]-ni-ri
[… a-ta-al-lu]-ki-ša ki-ma e-le-pí i-te-i-il
6 [… munus du-d]a-a-ni ma-gi4 a mi-ni-ri
[…] i-na a-ta-al-lu-ki-ša ki-ma e-le-ep-pí i-te-i-il
7 [x an-ú]r du-da-a-ni ma-gi4 a mi-ni-ri
[i-ši]-id ša-me-e ù er-ṣe-tim i-na a-ta-lu-ki-ša ki-ma e-le-pí i-te-i-il
8 ⌈ma-še⌉-ma-ta še-em im-mi-in-si
ki-ma e-le-ep ri-qí ri-qí ma-li-a-at
9 ma-e-re-na-ta e-re-en im-mi-in-[si]
ki-ma e-le-ep e-re-ni e-re-na-am ma-li-[a-at]
10 ma-še-em-e-re-na-ta še-em-e-re-na im-mi-[in-si]
ki-ma e-le-ep ri-qí e-re-ni ri-qí e-re-n[a-am ma-li-a-at]
11 ma-gu-ug-za-gi-na gu-ug-za-gi-na im-mi-i[n-si]
ki-ma e-le-ep sa-am-tim ù uq-ni-im sa-am-t[a-am ù uq-na-am ma-li-a-at]
12 ù gu-ug nu-zu ù za-gi-i[n nu-zu]
ù sa-am-tum ú-ul i-di ù uq-nu-ú-um ú-u[l i-di]
13 ma kar za-la-na kar-ta ba-an-ta-ge4
a-na ka-ar ta-ši-la-tim i-te-i-i[l]
14 dAsar-lú-ḫi i-gi im-ma-an-s[um]
[d]⌈Marduk⌉(AMAR.UTU) [… …]
15 [a-a-ni dEn-ki-ra é-a ba-an-ši-ku4 gù mu-na-an-dé-e]
[… …]
16 [a-a-mu munus du-da-a-ni ma-gi4 a mi-ni-ri]
17 [… munus du-da-a-ni ma-gi4 a mi-ni-ri]
18 [… munus du-da-a-ni ma-gi4 a mi-ni-ri]
19 [a-rá-min-na-kám-ma-aš-šu-ub-du]
20 [… …]
21 [dEn-ki dAsar-lú-ḫi dumu-ni-ra mu-na-ni-íb-gi4-gi4]
22 [… …]
23 [dAsar-lú-ḫi a-na ma-ra-bé a-na a-ra-ab-daḫ]
24 [… …]
25 [ì-ga-zu-mu ù za-e nì-gá-zi]
26 [… …]
27 [ù za-e ì-ga-zu]-a [ gá-e nì-gá-zi]
[… ti]-du-ú a-na-ku lu-⌈x x⌉ (…)
28 gin-na ⌈dumu⌉-[mu] al-kam [dMarduk]
29 gi-sú-ug-bàn-da-eri4-du10-ga šu [ù-me-ti]
qá-na-a ša Sú-ug-bàn-da ša Eri4-du10-ga i-na [le-qí-i]
30 ia-ab-kù-ga ga-ra-ab-ši-il-la-ma šà-ba [ù-me-ni-dub]
ša-ma-an li-it-tim el-le-tim li-iš-da-am […] šu-pu-uk
31 saḫar sila-⌈lam4⌉-bi e-pí-ir su-qí er-be-t[i]
32 ⌈x⌉ [x x] id li ib [x] GIŠ ⌈x x⌉ zi (…)
33 ⌈x⌉ [… ⌈x⌉ tim ša ⌈x⌉ ni im
34 […] ba ⌈x⌉ […] ⌈x⌉du? ki ta (x)
[…] nu nu tim ḫa ⌈ma⌉ am mi im ⌈x x⌉ im me [x]
[…]-e mi-it-ḫa-ri-iš bu-⌈ul⌉-li-il ⌈x⌉ […]
35 […] ⌈x⌉ ḫé-en-[x]-ge4
[e-li a-bu-un-na-ti]-ša he-pé-e-ma
36 [tukum-bi ni]n?-ta x tukul-a-ni igi [mu-u]n-ši-in-bar
[šum-ma] ⌈ma⌉-ar a-na ka-ki šu-a-ši [ip-pa]-⌈li-su⌉
37 [tukum-bi munus ⌈x⌉ TUK ga-ri-im-⌈ma⌉-a-ni igi [mu-un-ši-in]-bar
[šum-ma ma-r]a-at a-na ⌈x⌉-[…šu]-a-<ši> i-[ip-pa]-⌈li-su⌉
38 […] til la ḫé a sa ⌈x⌉
39 […] dUtu-kam ḫ́é-⌈em⌉-ma-ra-⌈è⌉
[…] ⌈x⌉-tim li-it-ta-aṣ-<ṣi>
40 [KA-inim-ma munus ⌈ù-tu-da⌉
41 […] gu4
Translation
1 [Enenuru incantation]:
2–3 [The woman, when walking about, wobbles like a boat],
4 [… The woman(?), when walking about], wobbles like a boat,
5 [… The woman(?), when walking] about, wobbles like a boat,
6 [… The woman(?)], when walking about, wobbles like a boat,
7 The horizon, when she is walking about, wobbles like a boat.
8 Like a boat (carrying) aromatics, she is filled with aromatics,
9 Like a boat (carrying) cedar, she is filled with cedar,
10 Like a boat (carrying) aromatics and cedar, [she is filled] with aromatics and cedar,
11 Like a boat (carrying) carnelian and lapis-lazuli, [she is filled] with carne[lian and lapis lazuli],
12 Is it carnelian? she knows not; Is it lapis-lazuli? she knows not.
13 She wobbles towards the quay of celebrations.
14 Marduk [observed this],
15 (Sum.) [To his father Enki, into the house he came in, calling to him… …]:
16-18 (Sum.) - “[Father: the woman, about to give birth, leads the boat in the water; the woman, about to give birth, leads the boat in the water]”
19 (Sum.) [When saying this for the second time… …],
21 (Sum.) [Enki answers his son Asarluḫi]:
23 (Sum.) - “[Asarluḫi, what could I say to you? What could I add to you?... …]”
25 (Sum.) “[What I know, you (also) know yourself… …]”,
27 “[What] you know [yourself], I [know] (too)”.
28 “Come [Marduk)”,
29 “When [taking] a reed of the Little Marsh of Eridu”,
30 “Pour the fat-milk of a pure cow, and the cream of [a mother cow]”,
31 “dust from a crossroads”,
… …
34 “[…] mix together […]”
35 “break it [above her navel]!”
36 [If] it is a boy, they [look]ed at his “weapon”,
37 [If] it is a g[irl], they [look]edat[h]er [“crucible”(?)],
38 (Sum.) … …
39 May he come out [(to the light?)]
40 [Incantation] for [a woman] in labor.
41 […] .
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. 7058; view on seal.huji.ac.il.