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A praise poem of Abī-Ešuḫ (Abī-Ešuḫ B)

Segment A

1. ud babbar-ta ḫu-mu-ra-X []
2. ud zalag-ga šag4-zu /ḫe2\-[…]
3. ud zalag-ga ud dutu di-kud niĝ2 X []
4. sag9-ga niĝ2-si-a-ni KA-KA X []
5. ešgiri2? an-na an ki-bi X []
6. [] X X dmarduk X []
approx. 4 lines missing

Segment B

1. šag4-/ba\ []
2. bal AN []
3. nam an-gub-/bu\ []
4. igi dutu dnanše X []
5. igi a-bi-e-šu-/uḫ\ []
6. TU-TU-zu e2 AN X []
7. ki za-ba nam-diĝir-zu []
8. ĝiš-šub-ba-zu []
9. ĝiš e2-e ĝiš X []
10. ud ĝi6-a X []
11. ka-ta eme-bi []
12. diĝir-zu nam-til3-/gin7\ []
13. dlamma nam-til3-la []
14. nam-til3-la u2 šudu3 A X []
15. ud re-a mu su3-ra2 re-a []
16. šu kug-ga dlamma-ni []
17. dnisaba nin(source: nin9) ereš2ki-ke4 TUG2 []
18. i3-dub še ĝal2-la []
19. du-du-e []
20. kaskal ḫar-ra-an-na X []
21. dug4-ga bi2-in-dug4-ga a-ra2-a-ra2-/zu\ []
22. lu2 ḫuĝ munus-šag4-zu-gin7 fuš-bar X []
23. dutu-ra bi2-in-dug4-ga []
24. dnanna-ra bi2-in-dug4-/ga\ []
25. e2 kur9-ra-ke4 [X (X)]-ga-/zu\ []
26. tur-ra gu-la [X]-ga-zu bi2-/in\-[…]
27. ĝišgu-za tuš-a-ni ĝiš-nu2-[a nu2-a-ni]
28. DI sig10-ge5 di-di-da [] X []
29. a-ra2-zu diĝir-zu X [X] X X X []
30. mu nam-til3-la itid /silim-ma\ ki šag4 ḫul2-/la\ []

Print sources

Alster 1986: translation, commentary, handcopy, score transliteration

Alster 1990c: score transliteration, translation, commentary (no. 2)

Electronic sources

Krecher 1996: composite text

Cuneiform sources

BM 80091 (ASJ 8 pp. 10-11)

BM 80184 (CT 44 18)

CBS 1208


Revision history

26.iv.1999: JAB, editor: standardisation
14.ix.1999: GZ, editor: proofreading
03.xii.1999: GC, editor: SGML tagging
07.i.2000: ER, editor: proofreading SGML
07.i.2000: ER, editor: web publication
01.vi.2003: GC/JE, editor/technical developer: XML/TEI conversion
30.iii.2005: GC/JE, senior editor/technical developer: lemmatised version published

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