Nippur Compendium

[Nibrunibitadua]

[...]

Duranki

Creator of the father of Enlil

[D]uranki

City of the universe, [s]eat of purification

Duranki

... [...]

Girgilum

C[ity ...] ...

Nippur

... [...] ... [...] mountain

[...] ...

Durank[i]

[...] ... [...]

[... can]not be equaled

Durgišimmar

[...] ... which is all ...

Durgiš[lam]

[...] ...

Ki[ngi]

[...] ...

and [w]her[e ...] ... [...]

Nambi-...-[...]

[...] ... its r[e]d soil

Nambitar[ra]

[...] ... Šamaš ...

... [...] gathers up its [s]eed

Uzumua

The pl[a]ce in which humans were created

and where the decrees are perfectly provided

Uruniganša-...

City to which the centre of heaven is attentive

Uruagara

City of posterity

Urušau[ru]

[St]orehouse of truth

Urunigsag[a]

...

[D]ušuba

Attender at the purification rite of the appearance

Ekur

House which gathers the decrees of the gods

Ekur

Pure chamber

[E]kur

[House of the imp]ortant (lady)

Ekur

House of the important (lord)

[E]kur

[House of the s]on

Ekur

House which returns the favour of the king

[E]kur

House [...] ...

Ekur

Cella of conquest

[E]kur

[House], great [mountai]n

Ekur

House of Enli[l]

[E]kur

House, [gr]anter of purity

Ekur

House, [c]r[eat]or of humans

[Eku]r

House which calls humans into being

[Ekur]

House of the people’s abundance

[Ekur]

Pure [shrin]e

[Ekur]

Sublime [cham]ber

[Ekur]

[House], pure mound

[Ekur]

[House] of Manungal

[Ekur]

[House of hea]ven and underworld

Ešumeša

House which binds the bones of the gods to tribute

(or,) which gathers the bones of ditto (= the gods to tribute)

Euluga[l-...]-...-sisi

House of plen[ty] ...

E-KA-...

House [...]

E-...-[...]-...

House [...]

E-...-e-...

House [...] ... [...] ... [...]

E-[...]

House ... [...] ...

Eduran[ki]

House, seat of the Enlils of the past

Edurki-...

House, abode of the underworld

Kiirrum[aḫ]

[House] whe[re] .... is plundered

Kiermaḫ

... (or,) mourning of Bēlet-ilī

Eburšušua

House, seat of ...

Urunanam

True city, (or,) City of judgement

Ekišnugal

House whose weapons cannot be faced

Ekešnungal

House, bond of the Igigi

Ekaešnungal

House whose gate opens to Apsû

Edublamaḫ

House, holder of the b[u]ried tablet

Ekurkurru

House which strikes young men down

Esuenna

House, grave of the land

Umušanna

Bēl-ālīya o[f] Borsippa

Umuškita

Bēl-ālīya o[f ...] ...

Šaruršargaz

Bēl-ālīya [of Ša]lammû

Ubanuilla

Bēl-ālīya [of D]imat-[E]nl[il]

[K]urrašuurur

Bēl-ālīya o[f] Kār-Ninurta

Erimabinutuku

Bēl-ālīya [of] Sasaerim

[S]apiinaabi

Bēl-ālīya [of] Patti

Pisangunuk

Bēl-ālīy[a of] Kullab

Uz[unin]nu

Bēl-ālī[ya of] ...

[T]ukulsagninnu

Bēl-ālīya of Dēr

[The s]eats of the courtyard of the temple of Ninurta, (or,) of Nabû and Asalluḫi

The seat which is in Ekiu[r], (or,) [of the Governor in Chi]ef, Ninurta of Parak-māri

The seat[s ...] of the temple of the deity [...] ... the wicked one

The seat which ... [...]..., (or,) of Ninurta

The seats which ... [...] the temple ... [...] ...

The seats which are at the Akītu Gate, [(or,) of the deity ... and] Uraš

Enlileerinsudzuzu (or,) of Enlil ... [...] his [pe]ople

Kigubgamma (or,) where they submitted to him

Naṣnaṣû

The b[ird not accomplishing desire]

South

Ea, father of the gods

East

Enlil, lord of the totality

North

Ninlil, the lord of phantoms

West

Anu, father of heaven

Month

Anu

Year

[Ea]

Night

Ea and Damkina

(or,) Night

Eude of Aman[ki]

[First day]

Anu

[Seventh day]

Ni[n]lil

Fifteenth day

Ni[n]urta

Twentieth day

Gula

Twentieth day

Šamaš

Twenty-fifth day

Sîn

Day of the disappearance of the moon

Sîn, (or,) Lugaldukuga

Intercalary day

Šamaš

Extracalary day

N[inurta]

In the month Nisannu the (following) festivals are celebrated:

the Akītu of Marduk

for his divine supremacy

the Akītu of Ninurta

for his father Enlil

the Akītu of Ištar, Queen of Nippur (or,)

of Ninurta

the Akītu of Sîn

for Ninurta, the net of the gods

as many Akītu’s as there are

for Ninurta, the net of the gods

Battlefield (the 15th day)

Battle

Impure woman

Muster of Nippur

Purification priest

Purifi[er]

Axe and mace

Weapons against the insubmissive

Offering of water

Descent to the grave

Bondage of the shepherd

Opening of the grave

Abu

We[ap]on, convergence of strength and vigour

Cricket of Gula

Expulsion of An[u]

Long River Ordeal

Festival of Ištar

Ulūlu

of Ištar

Tīru

of Ea, (or,) of the deity [...]

“Chariot of Enlil, Foremost Weapon of Enlil”

for the rising of Šamaš

(or,) “Weapon of Ninurta and Enlil”

Renewal

Urunakku

Reed-hut

This day Enlil, the herald

Month of the free-will offering of Nissaba

Sacrifice of the shepherd

Month of the free-will offering of Nissaba

Šabāṭu

Month of the free-will offering of Enlil

Month of the free-will offering of Enlil

Table cover, games

The goddesses Ananati

[Lugaledin]na

The Asakku, Lātarāk

[Abba]gula

son of Anu

[E]qu

[Muḫ]ra

[Kūš]u

[Sila]kku

[Aeridu]

[Auri]

conquered by Ninurta

[...]

whose dwellings are at the edge of the c[ity]

[Kull]a

Foremost son of Enlil

[...] ...

ditto

[...] ...

ditto

Nintinugga (Gula);

[...]

Enanun (Bēlet-ilī);

Š[ulpaesia (Sîn)];

Šulpaeutulam (Nergal);

Ninamaškuga [...];

Asukudkusiganna ... [...];

7 gods [...]

Ereškigal (Gula);

[...]

Nubanda (Nuska);

[Zisummu (Ninimma)];

Enzišusikilla (Šuz[ianna)];

[Šegbarragimgim (Ennugi)];

Urbad (Kusu);

Urb[adḫumḫum (Ninšar)];

Gubbaganirae (N[inkasi]);

[Abarralaḫ (Nuska)];

10 gods of Ubšukkinn[aku ...]

Lamma (Ninimma);

Irḫan [(Šuzianna)];

Uduggaga (Ennugi);

[Lammagaga (Kusu)];

Udugsigga (Ninšar);

L[ammasigga (Ninkasi)];

Adaḫ [(Nuska)];

7 tutelary deities [of Ekur]

Kizaza (Ea); Papsuk[kal (Kakka)];

7 gods of the Inner Court of the Sceptre

Bēl-ālīya of Parak-māri; 7 tulerary deities;

Ninkasi; Bēlet-balāṭi; Sîn; Ninimma; Ninšar;

Erragal; Šuzianna; Inimmanizi;

Ninkarnunna; the Temple of the ḫarû; Kusu; Nuska; Papsukkal;

21 gods of the Outer Court of the Sceptre

Sîn; Ningal; Marat-Sîn; Šuzianna; Ningal; Šamaš; Kalkal;

7 gods of the temple of Sîn

Adad; Gula; Ninurta; ... ; Bēlet-balāṭi; Ninšar;

6 gods of the temple of Adad

Anu; Enlil; Nuska; Sîn; Ninimma; Kusigbanda;

Bēlet-ilī; Bēlet-balāṭi; Papsukkal; Ekur; Ekiur; Ešumeša; Eigiḫuša;

9 gods of the 4 sanctuaries of the temple of Ninimma

Ninurta; Gula; Damu; Kurunnam;

Kusu; Urmaḫ; Nuska; Ninimma; Šuzianna;

Bēlet-ṣēri; the Divine Heptad; Bēl-ālīya; Sirāš; Ningirzida;

14 gods of the temple of Gula

Er[ra]; Erragal; Lugalirra; Meslamtaea; Dam[u];

5 gods of the temple of Ner[gal]

Enlil; Ninlil; Ninurta; Gula; Ninmah; N[intu];

Kusu; Lillu; 8 gods of the temple of B[ēlet-ilī]

Nissaba; Kusu; Ningal; Šamaš; Bēl-ālī[ya];

5 gods of the House of P[ra]is[e]

[...] Sîn the deity ... [...] the deity [...]

[...] ...

[...] ...

[...] ...

[...] ...

[...] ...

[...] ... of Ekur

[... be]er of Anu-ship

[...] ... large bowl: beer of the assembly

[... beer fav]oured by Enlil

[...] sweet [bee]r whose name is budû

[...] which is named in Apsû

[...] ..., which opens the earth, beer of the lamsīsu-vat

[The 7 first quality beers of Ek]ur; the 7 first quality beers of Ekur