Anu Begot Her

(return to Old Babylonian Akkadian Literature)

1. Annum(AN) ib-ni-szi {d}E2-a u2-ra-bi-szi

2. pa-ni kal-ba-tim i-szi-im-szi {d}En-lil2

3. i-s,a-at ri-ti?-in [a]-ra-ka-at

4. u2-ba-na-tim s,u2-up-ra-tim

5. ar-ra-ka-at a-ma-sza bu-ul-la

6. bab(KA2) bi-ti i-ru-ba#-am#

7. i-h,a-lu-up s,e2-ra-am#

8. ih,-lu-up s,e2-ra-am i-da-ak s,eh,ram({LU2}TUR)

9. i-na im-szi-szu a-di VII is,-ba-su2

10. us2-h,i s,u2-up-ri-ki

11. ru-um-mi i-di-ki

12. la-ma ik-szu-da-ki

13. ap-kal-lam szi-pi2-ir E2-a qar-du

14. ra-pa-asz-ki s,e2-rum pu-ta-a dala:tum(IG.MESZ)

15. al-ki-ma a-ta-la-ki i-na s,e2-ri

16. ep-ra-am pi2-ki

17. ta-ar-bu-'a4-am pa-ni-ki

18. sah,la:(ZAG.AH,!.LI) da-qa-tim

19. u2-ba-lu i-ni-ki

20. u2-ta-mi-ki ma-mi-it E2-a

21. lu? (text: u2!) ta-at-ta-la-ki

• Edzard, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 160/4 (2002), 542-544.

• Farber, ZA 71 (1981), 72. (Literature)

• Keiser, BIN 2 72. (Text)

• Landsberger, JNES 17 (1958), 53 note 7, 57. (Literature)

• Veldhuis in Abusch, ed., Magic, 42-45. (Edition)

• von Soden, OrNS 23 (1954), 337-344. (Edition)

• Wasserman, Style, 34. (Lines 3-5)

• Wasserman, Style, 163. (Lines 16-19)

• Wiggerman in Stol, Birth in Babylonia, 231-232. (Literature)