SAA 10 295. Fall of the Heavens (PBS 7 132) [from exorcists][via saao/saa10]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-bat ⸢LUGAL⸣	(1) A word of the king to Urad-Gula:
o 22	a-na ^mARAD—^dgu-la	(1) A word of the king to Urad-Gula:
o 33	DI-mu a.a-ši ŠÀ-ba-ka	(3) I am well, you can be glad.
o 44	lu DÙG.GA-ka ina ŠÀ-bi GIŠ.ZU	(4) In that writing-board [wh]ich you dispatched to me via Ahi-duri there [were ...] phylacteries [...]
o 55	šu-u ⸢ša⸣ ina ŠU.2 ^mPAB^?—⸢BÀD^?⸣
o 66	tu-še-bi-la-an-ni
o 77	me-UGU-šú-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x]-a-te
o 88	i-na ŠÀ-bi [x x x]

o 99	ù DÙ.DÙ.BI-šu šá-ṭi-⸢ir⸣	(9) And the pertinent ritual is written (there) as follows:
o 1010	ma-a ÉN ŠUR ^dNIN.KILIM MAŠ.MAŠ	(10) "Incantation: ... Ninkilim, exorcist of Ninurta! Fall of the heavens." What is this? The heavens exist forever.
o 1111	^dMAŠ ŠUB-ti AN-e mi-i-nu šú-u
o 1212	ka-a.a-[ma]-⸢nu⸣ AN-e i-ba-ši
o 1313	[x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[ša] i-qab-[bu-u-ni]	(r 1) Write down and [send me what] they say even (if) there is no alternative [...] how it is p[erformed]. And write down and send (this) via [NN].
r 2'2'	šu-ṭur [še-bi-la]
r 3'3'	ù la-a pu-ḫi ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
r 4'4'	i-ba-ši a-ki šá in-[x x x]
r 5'5'	ù i-na ŠU.2 ^m⸢x x⸣+[x x x]
r 6'6'	šu-ṭur šup-ra

Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P258805/.