Eme-sal Tails — Nudimmud, Sweet Nippur, a Holy Lady

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Eme-sal tails — Nudimmud, sweet Nippur, a holy Lady. A rite in purity with water, a rejoicing heart, Enki under his creator-name, and sweet Nippur, in the gala's dialect.

Never translated before — in any language. No edition and no translation of this text stands in print or on the records checked. The reading below is the first rendering of this text anywhere.

"In purity … the rejoicing heart … Nudimmud … sweet Nippur … the holy Lady" — the tails of an Eme-sal hymn

Status: CLEARED-FIRST — first English rendering of the preserved tails, as a fragments-class witness reading. Found by Overnight Wave B (2026-10-22): the virgin-145 census (2026-10-19) recorded this record as an empty eBL stub ("NO TEXT"); the record in fact carries a 7-line transliteration (Peterson, entered 2026-03-06), 0 #tr.en — the census probe failed on this band, and the correction is documented in and the wave report. Every line is a tail; nothing here is dressed up as more than it is. Publication gated on Richard's green light per program law. Nothing has been published; nobody has been contacted.

1. The piece

• Object: Ist Ni 9615, Istanbul (Nippur collection); CDLI P-number not on the eBL record as served (the virgin census row keys it to ISET 3 no. 28). Copy: ISET 3, no. 28 (Kramer's Istanbul vol. III manuscript).
• Text as served: eBL record Ni.9615 (, fetched 2026-10-22): transliteration by Peterson, entered 2026-03-06. Seven preserved line-tails, all %es#tr.en.**
• Print: the record's only reference is the copy (typed EDITION: ISET 3, 28); its uncurated list is empty — no Civil Index trace, no PSD trace, no discussion anywhere on the record. The cleanest print profile of any piece worked this wave.
• Corpus test (this desk): the preserved phrases occur 0 times in the 3.56M-line open CDLI ATF corpus — ga-sza-an-ka-si, sag4 hul2-la {d}nu-dim2, nibru{ki} ze2-ba all absent. The composition stands in no composite.
• Web check (2026-10-22): nothing on this tablet's text. (General searches run for the wave's candidates returned no edition or translation of this piece.)

2. The reading — 5 units rendered of 7 preserved tails

Sigla: … = clay lost; (?) = uncertain reading, flagged where it stands. Counts at §4. Renderings formed independently at this desk from the transliteration as served; no prior English exists on the record.

The tails (one face preserved):

3′. … in purity … water … 4′. … the rejoicing heart … Nudimmud … 5′. … sweet Nippur … 6′. The holy Lady … 7′. … the Lady Kasi … the true brow(?) …

Line by line (transliteration as served):

3′. […] sikil-la a […] — sikil-la, locative of sikil "pure": "in purity"; a, "water." A rite done in purity, with water. 4′. […] šag₄! hul₂-la {d}nu-dim₂-m[ud …] — šag₄ hul₂-la, "the rejoicing heart"; Nudimmud, the great epithet of Enki of Eridu. The heart rejoices before Enki — or Enki's own heart rejoices; the tail does not say whose. 5′. […] nibru{ki} ze₂-ba a? ta […] — nibru, Nippur, Enlil's city; ze₂-ba, "sweet." "Sweet Nippur" — the city praised in the same breath as Enki's rejoicing. 6′. ku₃ ga-ša-an-(x)-KA […] — line 6′ begins the preserved portion mid-phrase: ku₃, "holy, pure"; ga-ša-an, Eme-sal for nin, "the Lady." "The holy Lady…" 7′. […] ga-ša-an-ka-si saĝ?-ki? zi […] — ga-ša-an-ka-si, "the Lady Kasi" — a Lady under the name or byname Kasi (the reading is the transliteration's; whether a distinct goddess or a byname, the tail cannot settle); saĝ-ki zi, "the true brow/forehead(?)," both signs flagged uncertain by the transliterator.

3. What the piece is

An Eme-sal hymn or lament fragment — the gala's dialect — whose five readable tails hold a small cultic scene entire: a rite in purity with water; a rejoicing heart; Nudimmud, Enki under his creator-name; sweet Nippur; a holy Lady; and a Lady Kasi. Enki and Nippur named together, a goddess praised in the lament register — whose hymn it is, and what occasion it served, the seven tails do not preserve. It is not identified with any composition known to this desk, and no claim beyond the tails is made.

4. Standing, counts, and doors

• Units: 5 rendered — 0 whole / 2 part (4′, 5′) / 3 fragments (3′, 6′, 7′) / 0 invented. Two preserved tails (1′., 2′.) carry only verb-scraps ([…]-ib-[…], […]-ib-ta-[…]) and are not rendered; they are counted here so the arithmetic is whole: 7 tails = 5 rendered + 2 unrendered.
• Doors on the face: none open from this desk — there is no print door to eyeball; the gate record is this file plus the census-correction note. If a future catalogue identifies the composition, the claim is re-examined then.
• Companion ruling (same band, same night): Ni 9556, an Eme-sal lament with "my beloved lady" and a refrain tail this desk could not responsibly render, was ruled FAILED-DOCUMENTED with its skeleton quoted in the cluster dossier — the line between the two pieces is the named gods and city here (Nudimmud, Nippur, the Lady Kasi) against address-and-refrain scraps there; both files state their counts so the line can be audited.
• Dragon scan: none — no ušumgal, muš, mušḫuššu, bašmu, or serpent-god name in the seven tails. (Kasi is a Lady's name, not a serpent.)

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