&P369223 = KAR 258
#project: caspo
#atf: lang akk-x-stdbab
#atf: use unicode
##note: VAT 11126 contains parts of Sipazianna 3 and Zappu 3 as well as Shamash 4. The fragment is from the left side of a tablet.

@tablet


@obverse

$ beginning of obverse missing

1'. [x x] x# [...]
#note: The obverse and reverse of Ebeling's copy are here exchanged.

2'. [qur?]-di#-ka [...]
#tr.en: Your [hero]ic acts(?) [. . .],
#note: Ebeling restores the line conjecturally as follows  (1953: 150): [qur]-di-ka [lu-ša₂-pi da₃-li₂-li₂-ka lud-lul], though I cannot find any shuila-prayer that begins a line with this word. See BMS 52 + K.16361, r5ˊ (= P396503).

3'. [lu]-ub-luṭ lu#?-[uš-lim ...]
#tr.en: (That) [I may] live (and) may [be whole . . .]

$ single ruling

4'. KA-INIM-MA ŠU#-[IL₂-LA₂ {d}...-KAM*]
#tr.en: [It is] the wording of a [lifted]-hand-prayer to [. . .].

$ single ruling

5'. KID₃#.KID₃-BI [...]
#tr.en: Its ritual: [. . .]

$ double ruling

6'. EN₂ LUGAL# DINGIR#-MEŠ gaš#-[ru-u₂-ti]
#tr.en: Incantation: O king of the powe[rful] gods,
#note: The text of Zappu 3 likely follows. See BMS 52+ K.16361, rev. 10ˊ (= P396503) for the full catchline.

7'. ša# nap#?!-har#? KUR.KUR#? [...]
#tr.en: Who [. . .] all the lands.
#note: The second sign is not clearly a NAP, though this is what we would expect if the opening line here wers the same as the opening line of Zappu 3 (so Mayer 1976: 432). At the other end of the line: Ebeling's restoration of š[u!-pu-u], based on the parallel in BMS 52, seems to force this witness to conform to the duplicate (1953: 150). In the present witness, either the scribe has repeated KUR to indicate the plural explicitly or he has simply made a mistake (again, if this is the opening of Zappu 3). 

8'. {d}7(diš) [x x] x# [...]
#tr.en: O Pleiades, [. . .] . [. . .]

9'. NIGIN-ku#-[nu-ši ...]
#tr.en: I turn to y[ou . . .]

10'. mu-šu u₃#? [ur?-ra? ...]
#tr.en: Night and(?) [day(?) . . .]
#note: There is no room at the head of the line for Ebeling's proposed restoration: [harrānāti]-ia₅ šu-ši-[ra], "make my way straight" (1953: 150).

11'. aš₂-ti# x# [...]
#tr.en: I drank . . [. . .]
#note: A reference to tears, maybe?

12'. x# u₂ x# [...]
#tr.en: . . . [. . .]
#note: The x indicating the final broken sign in the line could be a lower horizontal in a sign in the previous line. 

$ single ruling

13'. KA#-INIM#-[MA ŠU-IL₂-LA₂ {mul}MUL-KAM*]
#tr.en: [It is] the wording of [a lifted-hand prayer to the Pleiades].
#note: The restoration of the šuila-rubric here is entirely conjectural since KA-INIM-MA is the beginning of several other kinds of textual rubrics.

$ rest of obverse missing

@reverse

1'. IL₂#{+ši} [...]
#tr.en: Who bears/lifts [. . .]
#note: Unattributed restorations follow Ebeling 1953: 150. The lines on this side of the fragment are identified as the only witness (so far) of Shamash 4, according to Mayer's catalog (1976: 410).

2'. šar₅#? DANNA x# [...]
#tr.en: A great distance (lit. 3600 double hours) . [. . .]
#note: We may very well expect lissi, "may (it) withdraw," at the head of this line. But, as matters stand, there does not seem to be room, even if it was spelled lis-si. And the hymnic context may argue against it.

3'. [a]-na ZALAG₂-ka u₂-[...]
#tr.en: [T]o your light . . [. . .]
#note: Ebeling restores u₂-[taq-qu-u₂], "they attend to" (1953: 150); the gods or people are presumably the subjects. STT 60+, obv. 7 (= P338378) provides a better parallel: a-na ⸢ZALAG₂⸣-ka u₂-⸢paq⸣-[qa] te-ne₂-še-e-ti, "the peoples pay he[ed] to your light."

4'. [iš]-šem-me si-qir-[ka ...]
#tr.en: [Your] utterance [is] obeyed (lit. heard) [. . .]
#note: Ebeling restores a second person verb at the head of the line, [te]-šem-me (1953: 150).

5'. [man?-za?]-az-ka e-tel#?-[...]
#tr.en: Your [positi]on(?) . . . [. . .]

6'. [x]-x#-MEŠ ŠAT TE I [...]
#tr.en: [. .] . . . . [. . .]
#note: Restore [{giš}]BANŠUR₂#?-MEŠ = paššūrū(?), which is not the typical logographic representation of the Akkadian word.

7'. [a]-na la#? a#?-lit#?-ti#? [...]
#tr.en: [T]o the barren (lit., the one who cannot give birth) [. . .]

8'. [a]-na#? [x]-x#-i [...]
#tr.en: [T]o . . . [. . .]
#note: Ebeling didn't even attempt a transliteration of this side of the fragment after this line, noting "Rest vorläufig unbrauchbar" (1953: 150). Without a duplicate, it seems to me, the lines will remain unusable.

9'. [x] x# x# LID#? MU x# [...]
#tr.en: [.] . . [. . .]

10'. [x] x# NA? ŠU₂? ana? x# x#? A# x# [...]
#tr.en: [.] . . . [. . .]

11'. [x x] x# x# x# ŠU x# [...]
#tr.en: [. .] . . . [. . .]

12'. [x x x x] x# x# [...]
#tr.en: [. . .] . . [. . .]

13'. [...] KU#? [...]
#tr.en: [. . .] . [. . .]

14'. [...] x# x# x# [...]
#tr.en: [. . .] . . . [. . .]

$ rest of reverse missing