A reading, published with its checks still open. A Vigslist translation.
Storm, and a small one who does not drink. A storm fragment.
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: PRAK B 362 — copy no. B 362 in de Genouillac, Premières recherches archéologiques à Kich (PRAK, 1924–25: hand copies, no translations in the volumes). From Kish. Old Babylonian. Corpus ID: CDLI P344178; served to OBEL (Old Babylonian Emesal Liturgies), genre "Uncertain." Composition: Unidentified. Nine line-ends: a storm, a destroying, and on the reverse a small one (tur) who does not drink, twice, and then lies down. In the Dumuzi laments the small one who will not drink is the lamb or the child of the fold; this fragment names neither, and the reading names neither. Source: OBEL's served interlinear text, fetched and saved by Wave C (). OBEL serves no translation. 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 counts whole.
Publication check (C3, Oct 22): no edition, translation, or discussion of PRAK B 362 found in the program's tree or in open search under its PRAK number or CDLI P344178. Doors left on the face: (1) The PRAK volume itself (copy of record). (2) Delnero, SANER 26 (Kish coverage; print-check wave). (3) CDLI's record (P344178) — unread; CDLI is still down.
Dragon/serpent flag: none. The storm (ud) is weather, as Wave C2 ruled for its own storm lines, and is left as weather.
o 1′: [... ]-x igi x-[... ] [...] the face [...] (a trace of a word)
o 2′: [... ] ud ḫul-a-na [...] the storm [...] his bad [...]
o 3′: [... ] gul?-la-na [...] his destroying [...]
o 4′: [... ] x-x [...] (traces) [...]
o 5′: [... ] ŋa₂?-⸢da⸣ [...] (traces) [...]
r 2′: [... tur]-ra nu-un-⸢naŋ⸣ 1 [...] the small one does not drink
r 3′: [... ] nu-un-naŋ [...] does not drink
r 4′: [... ba]-nu₂ [...] lies down
r 5′: [... ] ud-a [...] the storm [...]
9 served line-units: 0 whole · 4 part · 5 fragment · 0 invented. The part-lines are the storm line (o 2′) and the three complete negative/rest verb forms of the reverse (r 2′, r 3′, r 4′).
The reverse is three short clauses and they are the whole story the tablet still tells: the small one does not drink — does not drink — lies down. Anybody who has read the Dumuzi laments has met that sequence in the fold, where the lamb that will not drink is the one already lost. This scrap does not say lamb, and does not say Dumuzi. It says small one, twice refusing, then still. That is enough, and it is all.
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