&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'. [(o)] IL₂#{+ši} [ŠU?-MIN? ...]
#tr.en: [.] lifting of [the hands(?) . . .]
#note: ŠU-MIN is my conjectural restoration. 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) . [. . .]

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