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Two Nimrud Incantations of the Utukku Type
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
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The Nimrud tablet IM 67618/ND 5576 was excavated at Nimrud in the 1956 campaign. During a stay in Baghdad in the autumn of 1964 I copied the text and identified it as a duplicate of IM 67619/ND 5577, the tablet found next to it in the excavation. Both tablets were found in the ruins of the Ezida Temple, in the pit in NT 12. When excavated they were unburnt. ND 5576 is a fragment of a tablet the lower part of which is preserved. It measures 12·8 × 10 cms. ND 5577 is a tablet with both obverse and reverse preserved. The obverse is much defaced and its upper part is almost destroyed. The tablet has no colophon. It measures 25 × 10·5 cms.
The text of ND 5577 was copied and edited by the present writer some years ago. It contains three bilingual incantations. According to their subscriptions the first (obv. 1–26) and the second (obv. 27–43) were catalogued as nam-erím-búr-ru-da “(incantation) for absolving evil”. The third incantation (ob. 44-rev. 48) has an abbreviated ritual subscription mentioning the god Nun-ura. In their style and phraseology they offer strong resemblance to the texts of the series Utukkī lemnūti. ND 5576 provides another version of the greater part of the third incantation preserved on ND 5577. The present article will give a revised edition of the first incantation of ND 5577 based on a renewed collation of the text and a critical edition of the two versions of the third incantation. Copies of the text of ND 5576 will be found on Plates XXXIII–XXXIV.
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1 Cf. Mallowan, M. E. L., Iraq XIX (1957), 12fGoogle Scholar.; D. Oates, ibid. 29, and see the plan Pl. II (facing p. 2).
2 ‘An incantation tablet from Nimrud’ Iraq XXI (1959), 54–61 with Plates XVI–XIXGoogle Scholar.
3 A obv. 44, B beginning of text broken. I wish to thank Professor J. Laessøe for having collated a few passages of the present incantation. New readings resulting from his collation are marked J.L.
4 A obv. 56, beginning of B.
5 B [ ]l ú[ ].
6 A erasure of n u -.
7 B [ ]⌈x⌉: (division mark).
8 B, broken in A.
9 B [-ši-du], hardly room for -ma.
10 A beginning of reverse.
11 B [ ]-t a.
12 B [ ni-]še.
13 A adds UR, i.e. the last element of the sign repeated.
14 Partly erased in A.
15 B [ n]u-un-zu-a-[meš].
16 Sign PI both in A and B.
17 B -tum.
18 Lines 19f. one line in A, two lines in B.
19 B omits.
20 B -te.
21 Lines 21f. one line in A, two lines in B.
22 B[ -r]a-ra-[e-n]e.
23 B -ra-.
24 Broken in B.
25 B[ guru]s š ša[ga-díb-]du11-g[a-ab].
26 B⌈KU6⌉.MEš.
27 B ú-s[a-ḫa-]lu.
28 This line only in text A.
29 B[ g]aba-ru [ìm-ma]-an-rí-[e] š.
30 B omits Akkadian translation.
31 Lines 31f. one line in A, two lines in B.
32 B, broken in A.
33 B qaq -⌈qád-s ⌉u.
34 Lines 33f. one line in A, two lines in B.
35 B sign PI.
36 B-šá-.
37 Lines 35f. one line in A, two lines in B.
38 B room for one sign in the break. Erasure? First half of this line broken in A.
39 B A.LÂ.
40 B sign PI.
41 B -ra-.
42 B DIB-bat.
43 Lines 37f. one line in A, two lines in B.
44 Broken in B.
45 B sign P[I].
46 B -šú.
47 Lınes 39f. only in text A. Written as one line on the tablet.
48 Sign šU+TAB.
49 Lines 41f. one line in A, two lines in B.
50 B. First half of this line not preserved in A.
51 A, broken in B.
52 B, broken in A.
53 Lines 43f. one line in A, two lines in B. Beginning of reverse in B corresponding to A rev. 21.
54 A [ -b]i.
55 B, remainder of line broken in A.
56 B erasure of DIB.
57 A, broken in B.
58 B, the traces in A do not allow any restoration.
59 AB, restored from ikt[umūšu] of the Akkadian version. In B hardly room for more than three signs in the break.
60 B GIM.
61 B ⌈i ⌉[-ka-ta-mu]. There is room for three signs in the break.
62 B omits Akkadian translation.
63 B, A d[ ].
64 A, B omits.
65 Lines 50f. one line in A, two lines in B
66 B, break of three signs in A.
67 A, B gidim-mi-[x].
68 B, broken in A.
69 Lines 52f. one line in A, two lines in B.
70 B, break of three signs in A.
71 A[din]g[ir-re-]e-ne-ke4, B dingir-re-[[e]]-ke4.
72 Lines 56f. one line in A and B. The two lines are separated by a division mark on the tablets.
73 Lines 58f. one line in A, two lines in B.
74 A, B [ -n] e.
75 B omits.
76 B -gur-gur.
77 B -pír.
78 Lines 60f. one line in A, two lines in B.
79 B -ka-.
80 B, A[[ḫé-en-ba]]ḫé-en-[ba]-e.
81 A rev. 35, B ends remainder broken.
82 A mu-≪li≫-ru-su, B [ mu-r]⌈u ⌉-su.
83 A small vertical wedge added by mistake.
84 Text adds erasure of ḫé-em-
85 Thus Akkadian version of A. B they cover.