CT 15, 5f. (Sîn and Išum)
Transliteration
Obv.
col. i
1 …]-e-ne
(space left blank)
2 …] ⌈x⌉-ú-ma
3 …] ⌈x⌉-bu-tum
4 …] ⌈ú?⌉
5 …] ⌈x⌉
col. ii
1 i-na e-er-ši id-di-i-ni-lu
2 dEn-líl i-zi-ib ri-ḫi-is-sú ik-ka-ar-ši
3 iš-pu-pa-am-ma wa-ta-ar bi-ni-ta-am
4 dEN.ZU i-na bu-ku-ur dEn-líl ša-ni-ni / la i-šu
5 a-pi ú-da-at(-)i-ra-am dEN.ZU i-na-ma na-ri / še20-e-ep-šu ki-na-at
6 pa-ši ka-as-sú-sí ù su-la-a-i / na-mu-ti-iš-šu e-li ba-e-ru-ti-im / uš-ta-ab-ni-i-ma
7 [a]-na dNin-gal iš-ta-ka-an ú-zu-un-šu
8 [d]⌈EN.ZU⌉ iq-ru-uš a-na ḫi-a-ri-iš iq-ra-ab
9 [ x x x ]-ši-i-ma ú-ul i-ša-al a-ba-ša
10 [traces]
col. iii
1 i-ik-bi-it-ma e-l[i-....]
2 ṣa-ar-pí-iš ma-aḫ-r[i-iš?....]
3 iš-KU-ut-ma iz-zi-⌈iz⌉ […]
4 mu-ut-ti-iš um-mi-šu […]
5 a-ša-al-ki-i ma-ṣi-a-[am?…]
6 ú-la tu-šu-še-ri-i […]
7 ta-mu-ur-šu-ú-ma […]
8 ta-ad-bu-ub-šu-um-ma […]
9 ta-⌈aq⌉-bi-⌈šu⌉-[um?-ma?...]
col. iv Not preserved.
Rev.
col. v Not preserved.
col. vi
Beginning broken.
1’ zi-ik-⌈ri⌉-[…]
2’ mu-uš-ša-a[k?-kV?...]
3’ qè-er-bi-iš ⌈x⌉ […]
4’ mu-uš-ša-ak-ku […]
5’ ta-za-kà-ra-am a-[na…]
6’ a-na mi-nim al-q[í?...]
7’ ni-iz-ma-at li-i[b-bi-im?...]
8’ dPA.BIL.SAG pa-šu i[-pu-uš-ma (…)]
9’ iz-za-ak-kà-ra-am-ma a[-na…]
col. vii
Beginning broken.
1’ [ta?-r]i?-a-at-ma a-ḫa-aš tu-na-as-⌈sà⌉-⌈as⌉
2’ [ki-m]a ta-ri-i-tim it-ta-na-al-la-ak / qè-er-bu-um É-kur
3’ ⌈a⌉-na-ku a-ḫi ta-ri-a-ku a-ḫi ša a-na a-ḫi-ja / wa-al-du
4’ dEn-líl pa-a-šu i-pu-ša-am-ma
5’ iz-za-ak-kà-ar a-na la-ba-tim dINANNA
6’ a-a-ia-am a-ḫa-ki ta-ri-a-at a-ḫa-ki ša a-na / a-ḫi-i-ki wa-al-du
7’ dI-ša-am dNin-líl a-na dUTU ú-li-id-ma
8’ uš-ta-ḫi-iz-ma i-na šu-li-i-im i-zi-ib-šu
col. viii
Not preserved.
Translation
col i
(Traces)
col ii
1 They keep lying down on the bed,
2 Enlil left his semen in (her) womb.
3 When he is walking about, he is surpassing in stature:
4 Sîn did not have an equal among the sons of Enlil.
5 Reed-beds and marshes he loved, Sîn’s step was firm in the river.
6 He made axes, falcons and baits(?) in his mockery of the fishermen’s craft.
7 (Then) he set his mind on Ningal.
8 Sîn came over(?) and approached her in order to take her as mate.
9 [He ...] her, but did not ask her father.
(l. 10 broken)
col iii
1 It/he has become heavy, [...]
2 Bitterly [he cried out(?)] in front of[...]
3 He ... and stood [...]
4 in front of his mother [...]
5 “I asked you what is sufficient(?) [...]
6 You did not put right [...]”
7 She looked at him and [...]
8 And she talked to him [...]
9 She said to hi[m ...]
(remains and two columns broken)
col vi
1’ The Word [...]
2’ muššakku-incense [...]
3’ to the centre [...]
4’ muššakku-incense [...]
5’ She said t[o(?)...]
6’ Why did I recei[ve...?]
7’ the h[eart’s(?)] desire [...]
8’ Pabilsaĝ [began to] speak (...)
9’ and said t[o ...]
col vii
(Beginning broken)
1’ She nurses her brother and rocks (him),
2’ like a nanny she walks to and fro in midst the Ekur:
3’ “I am nursing my brother, my brother that has been born to my brother.”
4’ Enlil began to speak and
5’ said to the lioness Ištar:
6’ “Who is your brother, whom you nurse, your brother who has been born to your brother?”
7’ “Išam, whom Ninlil bore to Šamaš.
8’ When she got married(?), she left him in the street.”
col viii
Not preserved.
Commentary
ii 3: iš-pu-pa-am-ma: The reading proposed in CAD B, ṭa-bu, is to be rejected, since the photograph clearly shows IŠ at the beginning of the line. šapāpum, only scarcely attested, might allude to the movement of the moon. A semantic connection to the following form of watrum might be possible on grounds of the lexical equation of both Akkadian terms with Sumerian diri(g). Groneberg suggests a reading iš-pu pa-am-ma, assuming a form of šapû “to swell (said of sound)”. However, the verb is never used transitively or referring to pûm. Moreover, for her translation (“wortgewaltig”) a stative such as parallel wa-ta-ar would be expected (“swelling (in regard to) sound”).
ii 5: For i-na-ma cf. OBTR 150: 26 and OBTR 151: 19.
ii 6: Difficult. The reading suggested by Römer (su-la-a i- / na mu-ti-iš-šu) is highly unlikely, since there would have been enough space to write i-na in one line. su-la-a-i, (sulāʾī) is apparently not to be interpreted as sulûm, “street, track” since the variant spelling šulûm is attested in vii 9’. The translation “bait, decoy” has already been suggested by Römer, see his extensive commentary on the word and also CAD S 371. The meaning of the line remains arguable (see Groneberg 1974, 66 n. 7–8).
ii 8: ig-ru-uš: Römer assumed qerûm (“to call out, invite”, also “to approach” with sexual connotation) but offered no convincing explanation of the -u vowel. Groneberg, in consent with CAD, chose therefore the scarcely attested verb garāšum. She suggested, however, a new translation “to have sexual intercourse”.
vii 8’: The meaning of aḫāzu Št(2) or (Š perf.?) is not quite clear. The given translation follows the proposal in AHw. 19. CAD A/1, 183 suggested instead: “she was induced (by someone) to abandon him in the street.”
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. 7514; view on seal.huji.ac.il.