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

Segment A

1. ud babbar-ta hu-mu-ra-X [...]
2. ud zalag-ga cag4-zu /he2\-[...]
3. ud zalag-ga ud dutu di-kud nij2 X [...]
4. sag9-ga nij2-si-a-ni KA-KA X [...]
5. ecgiri2? an-na an ki-bi X [...]
6. [...] X X dmarduk X [...]
approx. 4 lines missing

Segment B

1. cag4-/ba\ [...]
2. bal AN [...]
3. nam an-gub-/bu\ [...]
4. igi dutu dnance X [...]
5. igi a-bi-e-cu-/uh\ [...]
6. TU-TU-zu e2 AN X [...]
7. ki za-ba nam-dijir-zu [...]
8. jic-cub-ba-zu [...]
9. jic e2-e jic X [...]
10. ud ji6-a X [...]
11. ka-ta eme-bi [...]
12. dijir-zu nam-til3-/gin7\ [...]
13. dlamma nam-til3-la [...]
14. nam-til3-la u2 cudu3 A X [...]
15. ud re-a mu su3-ra2 re-a [...]
16. cu kug-ga dlamma-ni [...]
17. dnisaba nin(source: nin9) erec2ki-ke4 TUG2 [...]
18. i3-dub ce jal2-la [...]
19. du-du-e [...]
20. kaskal har-ra-an-na X [...]
21. dug4-ga bi2-in-dug4-ga a-ra2-a-ra2-/zu\ [...]
22. lu2 huj munus-cag4-zu-gin7 fuc-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. jicgu-za tuc-a-ni jic-nu2-[a nu2-a-ni]
28. DI sig10-ge5 di-di-da [...] X [...]
29. a-ra2-zu dijir-zu X [X] X X X [...]
30. mu nam-til3-la itid /silim-ma\ ki cag4 hul2-/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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