VS 10, 213 (Ištar)

SEAL no. 7499 · VAT 6656 · Hymns and Prayers · Unknown · 24 lines · 80 words · 212 signs · 5 Sumerograms

Collated by Nathan Wasserman 2.2.11.

Transliteration

Obv. Col. i

1' [...] ⌈xx⌉ [...]

2' [ḫa?]-ba?-ra-as-sà iḫ-pí-ta šu-⌈mu?⌉-[...]

3' ⌈ma?⌉-ṣi-à-ti (ras.) pa-ru-šu i-ṣa(!?)-ri-im ⌈x⌉ [...]

4' iš-ša-ak-ka-an sà-aḫ-ma-aš-tum bi-ri-ta(-) ⌈x x⌉ [...]

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5' [ú]-ša-az-na-ani-na-ak-ra-titu-uq-ma-ta ša ki na-ab-l[i]

6' [x-]x-mi-ID {ID} ša-ma!-mi ù ka-aq-qá-ra ši-si-tu-ia

7' [uš?-t]a-ap-pí-lu ša-du ú-še-pí iš-še₂₀-pi-a e-li-ia(-)ma-tum

8' [ma-a]l-ka-at ša-ma-mi a ka-aq-qá-ri a-na-ku Iš₈-tár

9' [ša]-ar-ra-⌈at⌉ ik(?)šu-du°-ni a-gi-ia ma ši?-gi-im ša? ri-ig-mi

10' [e-t]e-né-et-ti-iq ša-ma-mi-ša ka-aq-qá-ra a-da-ri-is-ma

11' ú-ša-ab-ba-at re-ḫe-et da-ad-mi na-ki-ra-at ^dUTU a-kà?-ap

12' a-na ú-ur-ša-na-at i-li mu-ra-i-ša-at da-ad-mi

13' a-la-aṭ ra-ap-pu uz-za mu-ra-i-šu an-ti

14' [^dE]N-ZU ú-ul-da-an-ni-ma ra-šu-ub-ba-ta ma?-li-à-ku

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Col. ii

1' (broken)

2' ni?-[...

3' ni?-[...

4' ša-[...

5' x [...

6' nam?-[...

7' si?-[...

8' (vacant)

9' ú-[...

Translation

Col. i

1' ...

2' Her [cla]mor(?) increased greatly ...

3' Sufficient(?) is for me the goad, it strives(?) ...

4' Turmoil breaks out between ... [...]

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5' I rain battle down on the hostile (lands), which is like flames.

6' I ... heaven and earth with my shout.

7' The mountains were [low]ered (when) I paced with my feet on the earth.

8' The queen of heaven and(?) earth am I, Ištar,

9' the queen that arrived(?) ... cry.

10' [I] pass to the sky again and again, I trample upon the earth.

11' I destroy the rest of the inhabited world, I oppress(?) the hostile (lands) of Šamaš.

12' I am the warrior of the gods, who crushes the inhabited world.

13' I keep in check in a neck stock the fury crushing ...

14' Sîn begot me and I am full of awe-inspiring power.

Col. ii

(fragmentary)

Commentary

i 2': Is the first broken word a form of ḫabarattu “Lärm, Aufruhr” AHw. 302?

i 3': coll. N.W.

i 4': Reading birīta(-).

i 6': Zimmern 1916, 43 reads [ú-t]u-mi-id, followed by Wasserman 2003a, 78 with n. 79 who translates “I [le]an?” and analyses the form as irregular Dt(n) of emēdu.

i 7': Cf. Wasserman 2003a, 78 with n. 81–84. For šêpu D, now perhaps also attested in Old Babylonian Mari, see Hruša 2010, 216.

i 8': Wasserman 2003a, 78, n. 85 suggests an alternative reading [šu-u]š-qà-at. However, the spelling qà would be unexpected; the text uses qá (see ll. 6', 8' and 10').

i 9': Cf. CAD T 398 s.v. tigû B for a reading ti-gi-te instead of ši?-gi-im.

i 10': Cf. Wasserman 2003a, 78 n. 87 for the terminative šamāmiša.

i 11': Cf. kâpu AHw. 445 „niederdrücken?“, CAD K 192 kâpu A „to oppress“. But the spelling kà is unexpected. Zimmern 1916, 43 read a-ga-ab-bi?.

i 13': Given the frequent combination of rappu and lâṭu (CAD R 160 rappu 1b), a reading rabbûssa (CAD R 58 rabûtu 2b) is improbable. I adopt the alternative reading ra-ap-pu uz-za suggested there. rappū is locative. muraʾʾišu is apposition of uzza (in literary language, the -u-vowel sometimes occurs in the construct state). On antu see Streck 2010, 562 ad Agušaya A iii 8, 12.

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