Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000750
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
obverse
beginning broken
1'. mu# du10-ga#? [...]
en: Named a good name
2'. sza3-zu {d}[...]
en: Your interior is the river ordeal
3'. e2!-galga-su3# [...]
en: Egalgasud temple, storehouse that makes silver and lapis
4'. gi-sa-sze3# [...]
en: Into treasure
5'. tar-sirx(SUD)-sirx(SUD) [...] me i3-i ki?-ri szu# gal2
en: Etarsirsir temple, enunciating/effecting(?) decisions and the cosmic powers, one who strokes the nose (in submission)
6'. nun-zu sza3-la2 tuku#? [...]
en: Your ruler, possessed of pity ...
7'. nin a-zu gal [...]
en: Lady, great physician of the black headed
8'. nam iri{ki}-na# [...]
en: Who decrees the fate of her city
9'. dumu sag an ku3-ga ama#? [...]
en: Eldest child of holy An, mother Bau
10'. e2 iri{ki#?}-[...]
en: Temple of the Irikug sacred precinct
11'. musz#-za# e2 bi2-in#-[gub]
en: She erected a temple in your sacred space
12'. bara2-za dur2 bi2-in#-[gar]
en: She sat on your dais
double ruling
13'. e2-bur-sag12-sag12 an-e sug2#-[...]
en: Ebursagsag temple, (where beautiful stone bowls) are set up under heaven
14'. {+u2-nu}unu6 {en#?}en KA ku3-gin7 sa2 [...]
en: The dining hall/sanctum, consistently supplied (with offerings?) like the lord of the pure mouth(!?)
15'. he-nun ab sza3-ga unu2 [...]
en: The abundance of the midst of the sea, ... inner sanctum
16'. sumur3? ku3-ZI UBUR? [...] u2-x u2-gu-ul gar-ra
en: Pure(?) roof/hair?(?), ..., ..., ... interceding
17'. a-si-lu-lu [...]
en: Rejoicing ...
18'. e2-mah e2 {d}szara2 e2#? lu2 zi#?-[...]
en: The Emah temple, temple of Šara, the temple(?) where the faithful man in(?) abundance
19'. szu mu-ra-ni-in#-[...]
en: Prayed to you
20'. e2-zu e2-mah# nun#-zu dumu nun# [...]
en: Your temple, the Emah, your prince, the princely son of the nugig midwife (Inanna)(?)
21'. szeg10#? sal#-sal x he#-nun [...]
en: It voice thinned/spread out(?), (its) sacred space(?) producing(?) abundance
22'. [...] x [...]
rest broken
reverse
beginning broken
double ruling
1'. [e2]-sze-er-zi-gur3#-[ru ...]
en: Ešerzidguru temple, inner sanctum hung with šuba stones
2'. ni2# gal nigar{gar} ku3# [...]
en: (Possessing) a great aura, the nigar sanctary of holy Inanna
3'. me zi me e3 szu x [...] x [...] x x [...]
en: Adorning/touching the true me, the emerging(?) me, broadly
4'. zabalax(|MUSZ3.ZA.UNUG|){ki} esz3 MUSZ3 KUR#? [...] x x [...]
en: Zabalam, shrine ..., shrine at daybreak(?)
5'. ku-ur-{ku}kurku2 ad mi-x-[...]
en: She has found the voice of (i.e. found expression for?) the wish(?)
6'. unu2{ki} zi-za nu-gig#?-[...]
en: In your true inner sanctum, the nugig midwife
7'. kur-ku ma-ra-ni-[...]
en: Laid down the wish
8'. nin-zu {d}inanna MUNSZUB? [...] dili{+di-li}
en: Your lady, Inanna, singular ...
9'. uszumgal lu2 dili ur2 dab5-ba [...]
en: ušumgal creature grabbing the limbs(?) of the single(?) man, ...
10'. nig2-babbar2 sag SAR-SAR ki-bala-sze3 [...]
en: Shining as something white, advancing toward the rebel land
11'. gesz-he u2-sa11-an-na ni2-ta-[...]
en: The firmament in the evening made beautiful by her own (doing)
12'. dumu gal {d#}suen#-na {d}inanna#-[ke4]
en: The eldest child of Suen, Inanna
13'. e2 ki# zabalax(|MUSZ3.ZA.UNUG|)#[{ki}]
en: Temple of Zabalam
14'. musz-za e2# bi2#-in-[gub]
en: She erected a temple in your sacred space
15'. bara2-za dur2 bi2#-[in-gar]
en: She sat on your dais
double ruling
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