&P413943 = LKA 30
#project: caspo
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##note: VAT 13954 attests Nergal 2.

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1. EN₂# be#-lu₄# gaš#!(be)-lu₄#!(ru) [...]
#tr.en: Incantation: O powerful lord, [. . .]
#note: It seems the scribe might have written be-lu₄ a second time by mistake rather than gaš-ru. See also Mayer's collation (1976: 478 via Loretz). 

2. SAG!(KA).KAL#!? [...] x# [...]
#tr.en: Fore[most . . .]
#note: Ebeling (1953: 112) reads "KA + ?, nicht SAG(!)[.KAL]," but it seems likely to me that the KA at the head of the line is a mistake for SAG. Perhaps the copyist mistook a Babylonian SAG on the exemplar for a Neo-Assyrian KA. The following sign looks to have three horizontal wedges followed by at least one vertical. See the collation in Mayer (1976: 478). The lowest horizontal is smaller than the two above. It seems likely to me that this is the beginnings of a malformed KAL. If not, then our unfocused scribe has simply written the wrong sign for what surely must have been a KAL on the tablet. 

3. bu-kur₂ {d#}ku#-tu#-šar# [...]
#tr.en: Son of Kutushar, [. . .]

4. {d}U#.GUR kaš-kaš DINGIR-MEŠ# na#-[ram ...]
#tr.en: O Nergal, omnipotent one of the gods, belo[ved . . .]

5. šu-pa-a-ta ina AN#[{+e} ...]
#tr.en: You are manifested in the [. . .] heaven[s, . . .]

6. ša₂-qu-u man-za#-[az-ka]
#tr.en: [Your] posit[ion] is exalted.

7. ra-bat ina E₂.[KUR.UŠ₂ ...]
#tr.en: You are great in Ar[allû (i.e., the neth[erworld), . . .]

8. KI# {d}a-nim [...] 
#tr.en: With Anum, [. . .]

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