BiOr 75, 19f.
Rev. not inscribed.
Transliteration
Obv.
1 [l]i-ti-mi
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2 [l]i-ti
3 li-ti tu-la-da-am
4 li-ti iṭ-ḫe-am?
5 [l]i-ti i-qá-da?-da?
6 [q]á-qá-ra i-⌈sà⌉-r[a-aq]
7 li-ti ⌈i-sú⌉-u[q?]
8 ar pa ḫa ap-pi-⌈ša⌉
Reverse
9 i-mu-<ur>-ši ⌈dEn-líl i-ba⌉-[ki]
10 dEn-líl i-⌈la-ka di-ma-šu⌉
11 a-mi-ni-⌈mi⌉ dEn-⌈líl⌉
12 a-⌈mi⌉-<ni> dEn-líl ⌈i-ba-ki⌉
13 ṭa-ba-at
14 li-ti-ia la ⌈pé-ti-tim⌉
15 ⌈ú⌉-ni-qí-ia la wa-⌈li-tim⌉
16 ⌈{x x} ma-na-mi⌉ lu?-⌈uš⌉-pu?-ur?
Upper Edge
17 [lu-wa]-⌈e⌉-ra-[am]
18 [l]i-im-qú-tam qá-qá-‹ar›-šu
Left Edge
19 ⌈li-tum⌉
20 ⌈li-li a⌉-na a-aš-[…]
Translation
1 Oh my cow!
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2–4 My cow, my cow is giving birth, my cow drew near (the appointed time).
5–6 My cow is bending down?, she is sprink[ling the gr]ound (with her tears?)
7–8 My cow brushes the … with her nose.
9–10 Enlil saw her (and) was crying, Enlil, his tears were flowing.
11–12 – “Why is Enlil, why is Enlil crying?”
13 – she is good! –
14–15 – “(Over) my cow, not deflowered, (over) my kid who never gave birth”.
16–17 – “… Oh whom should I send and instruct?”
18–20 May it fall to the ground! The cow, may she rise to […]!
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. 7063; view on seal.huji.ac.il.