Never translated in any language before this page. A Vigslist translation.
Iškur roars — a storm-god scrap. Scraps of the storm god.
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.
fragment of a hymn to Iškur, the storm god: five line-units survive, two of them with their sense standing. No edition, no copy, nothing on the record but a catalogue line that says "Unidentified. Mentions Iškur." It is graded as what it is — traces — and built because the program keeps even scraps that have never been read in English, honestly labelled.**
Built 2026-10-22 from a fresh live eBL fetch (saved in ).
One fragment: BM.114115, from Ur (1919-10-11 series), Late Babylonian script, British Museum — the top edge of a tablet, three lines on one face and four on the other. CDLI number on the live record: P429574. Photograph on the record.
The storm god is named three times in what little stands. On the obverse the lord calls out; on the reverse Iškur roars — išgum, the thunder-verb. That is the whole of it: a voice, a roar, and the god's name, out of a hymn whose rest is gone.
Transliteration exactly as the record serves it; the bilingual pairs are counted and rendered once. Counts: 5 line-units — 0 whole, 2 part, 3 fragments, 0 invented. Traces class.
1′. ($___$) x […] (traces only)
2′–3′. %sux {d#}iškur i₃?#-ku?# x […] ($___$) {d}IŠKUR an x x […] "Iškur […]" (the god is named; the rest is traces)
4′–5′. %sux en?# gu₃# bi₂-in-[de₂/ra …] ($___$) be-lu₄ is-si su?#/lu?# […] "The lord called out […]"
1–2. %sux {d}iškur še₂₅ bi₂-in-[ge₄ …] ($___$) {d}IŠKUR iš-gu[m₂ …] "Iškur roared […]"
3. %sux [(x)] x (x) u₄#/na?#/na₄?# a bi?# […] (traces only)
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