SEAL no. 7547
Texts Hierarchy
Copy / Photo
pl. 214 no. 14
Collection
Foroughi Collection, Teheran
Edition
16–17
184
Genre / Classification
Hymns and Prayers, Prayer of Nebuchadnezzar I to Marduk
Provenance
Text
1 te-le-eʾ-e dMarduk(AMAR.UTU)
2 mut-nen-na-a e-ṭe4-ra!(NA)
3 muš-te-eʾ-ú aš-ra-ti-ka
4 eli(UGU) na-ki-ri šu-zu-uz-za
5 ⌈i⌉-zi-qa ša-ra-ka a-se-ʾi na-ak-⌈ri⌉-ia
6 du-un-ni-in kak-ki-ia-ma
7 lu-šam-qí-ta ge-ri-ia
8 ša dNabû(AG)-ku-dúr-ri-uṣur(ÙRU) šar(LUGAL) kiššati(ŠÁR)
Translation
1 You are able, o Marduk,
2 to rescue the prayerful,
3 to make him who seeks out your places
4 stand over the enemies.
5 Your breeze wafted to me. I crush my enemies.
6 Make strong my weapons,
7 that I might overthrow my foes!
8 (Property of) Nebuchadnezzar, king of the world.
Vocabulary
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| ašrum (KI) | place, site | 3 | |
| gērûm | enemy, adversary | 7 | |
| kakkum (GIŠ.TUKUL) | stick, weapon, battle | 6 | |
| kiššatum (KIŠ) | totality, world | 8 | |
| Marduk | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 1 |
| mutnennûm | who prays much, pious | 2 | |
| Nabû(AG)-kudurrī-uṣur(URU) | PN | 8 | |
| nakrum | strange, foreign, enemy | 4, 5 | |
| šarrum (LUGAL; EN) | king, lord | 8 | |
| šārum (IM) | wind, breath | 5 |
Signs in text
62
Words in text
24
Sumerograms in text
7
% of Sum. in text
29
Lines in text
8
Average signs per line in text
7.75
SD of signs per line
2.49
Revision History
Hess, Christian W.
Catalogue, transliteration, translation
01/01/12
Streck, Michael P.
Catalogue
16/04/12
Streck, Michael P.
Catalogue, transliteration, translation, index, creation of rtf-file
09/11/12