SAA 03 048. Childbirth Incantation and Ritual (ABRT 2 19)

~680 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334932

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 3

High confidence

(Break) (1) [... pr]aises you, lady [...] (2) [...] who [...] does [...] (3) [... w]eeps, does not [...] (4) [...] there is [...] (5) [...] a woman [...] (6) [...]... she knelt, with her [hands ope]ned (in prayer) before Adad [her br]other. (8) "What do you want from me, (my) sister, what should they give [you?] Let them give you fat oxen, fat sheep!" (10) "I do not eat fat oxen, fat sheep. Let them give to me the attractiveness of maidens, the handsomeness of young men!" (12) Place in my hands the inexhaustible craft of medicine! (13) May the phlegm keep on falling on the ground like a flash…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

[x x]-⸢na*⸣-ad*-⸢ki?⸣ MÍ.[x x x x x x x x] / [x x]-⸢ni?⸣ šá [x x] ta-nak-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x]-ba-ki la [x x x x x] / [x x x x x i]-ba-áš-ši a-⸢na*⸣-[x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ SAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ka-an-ṣa ki-⸢in*⸣-[ṣa-šá] / pa-[ta-ni up-na]-šá ina pu-ut dIM ⸢ŠEŠ*⸣-[šá] / mi-nu te-riš-⸢in*⸣-ni NIN mi-nu li-di-nu-[nik-ki] / li-di-nu-ni-ki GUD-MEŠ ŠE-MEŠ UDU-MEŠ…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P334932.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334932). source
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P334932/.

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