A reading, published with its checks still open. A Vigslist translation.
Lord, lady: six traces. Six traces naming lord and lady.
Published as a reading. No first-translation claim is made for this piece. The checks that would settle such a claim are named in the notes below and are still open; the wording on this page claims nothing they have not settled.
Publication number: VS 10, 142 — hand copy no. 142 in Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler 10 (Berlin, 1916-era copy volume: copy only, no transliteration, no translation). Corpus ID: CDLI P342950; served to OBEL (Old Babylonian Emesal Liturgies) from Sippar. Old Babylonian. Composition: Unidentified. Six line-ends, two of them glossed: umun, "the lord," and gašan, "the lady," standing three lines apart — the lord-and-lady alternation of the Emesal litanies, attested tonight also on Nippur's N 2684, reduced here to the two words themselves. Source: OBEL's served interlinear text, fetched and saved by Wave C (). OBEL serves no translation. fragments class: no line carries a form). Scoped to the witness, doors on the face below. Counting rule used here: a line counts part if a complete verb form or a glossed phrase survives; fragment if only isolated words or traces survive; whole only if a complete clause survives intact. No line of this tablet reaches even part.
Publication check (C3, Oct 22): no edition, translation, or discussion of VS 10, 142 found in the program's tree or in open search under its VS number or CDLI P342950. Doors left on the face: (1) Delnero, SANER 26 (catalogue eyeball outstanding, print-check wave). (2) Cohen, CLAM (1988). (3) CDLI's record (P342950) — unread; CDLI is still down.
Dragon/serpent flag: none. Nothing of the kind is preserved.
2′: [... ] a-ba x-[... ] [...] who(?) [...] (from the form alone)
3′: [... ] ⸢u₃⸣-mu-⸢un⸣ [... ] [...] the lord [...]
4′: [... ]-x a-x-[... ] [...] (traces) [...]
5′: [... ] ga-ša-⸢an⸣ [... ] [...] the lady [...]
6′: [... ]-x-⸢te⸣-ke₄ [... ] [...] (traces) [...]
7′: [... ]-x-NE ḫur-x-[... ] [...] (traces) [...]
6 served line-units: 0 whole · 0 part · 6 fragment · 0 invented. The count is the verdict: this is a traces-class record, built so the two glossed words it keeps are on the program's shelf with their doors named, and for no larger reason.
Two words — the lord, the lady — at the ends of two lines of a Sippar liturgy. Paired with N 2684, which keeps the same two words with one verb between them, the pair maps the smallest possible unit of the gala repertoire: a lord, a lady, and singing. This tablet kept the names and lost the singing.
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