&P402733 = OrNS 59, 486 #project: caspo #atf: lang akk-x-stdbab #atf: use unicode ##note: K.17386 contains a namburbi that includes a part of Shamash 5. @tablet @surface a $ beginning of surface missing 1'. [...] x#-x#-ka# aṣ#-bat# #tr.en: [. . .] . . . I seized . . . #note: Maul suggests the broken signs might be sissiktaka, "your hem" (1994: 392), which is unparalleled in the duplicate. 2'. [... GISKIM HUL]{+ti#} ša₂ ina EDIN-MU GAL₂{+u} #tr.en: [. . . (concerning) the evi]l [sign] that happened "in my steppe," #note: Maul (1994: 398n. 40) suggests "in my steppe" should not be taken literarly; rather, it is the place where the prince has confined himself for the ritual. He translates "in der Steppe, wo ich mich aufhalte" here and in lines 10ˊ and 12ˊ. 3'. [ina qi₂-bi-ti-ka] GAL#{+ti} ša₂ NU KUR₂{+ru} #tr.en: [according to your] great [command] that cannot be changed 4'. [u₃ an-ni-ka ki-nim] ša₂ NU BAL{+u} #tr.en: [and your true affirmation] that cannot be overturned, 5'. [...] pu#-su-us# ina SU#-MU# #tr.en: [. . .] erase (the evil) from my body. #note: The reading here is based on the context provided in K.2296 (+) K.2495. Maul reads [B]U SU x ina SU? x (1994: 392). Mayer's copy supports the present reading (1990: 486). 6'. [...] lu-uš-lim#-[ma] #tr.en: [. . .] that I may be whole, [and] 7'. [... DINGIR{+ti}]-ka# lut-tal-[lak x x (x)] #tr.en: [. . . of] your [divinity] I may walk [about], #note: There may not be room for what ends the line in the duplicate (K.2296 (+) K.2495): ina EDIN-MU, "in my steppe." 8'. [... E₃]-ka# lu#-uš#-[tah-hu-un] #tr.en: [. . .] may I wa[rm myself at] your [rising]. $ rest of surface missing