A reading, published with its checks still open. A Vigslist translation.
Trembling and rising. Trembling, and rising.
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, 164 — hand copy no. 164 in Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler 10 (Berlin, 1916-era copy volume: copy only, no transliteration, no translation). Corpus ID: CDLI P342972; served to OBEL (Old Babylonian Emesal Liturgies) from Sippar. Old Babylonian. The corpus itself is unsure of the faces ("o?", "r?"), and the reading keeps its question marks. Composition: Unidentified. Seven line-ends carrying violent motion: a touching, a trembling (dub), a rising (zig), a passing (dib) — the verbs of a theophany or a storm passage, with a stone (na₄) among them. 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 VS 10, 164 found in the program's tree or in open search under its VS number or CDLI P342972. Doors left on the face: (1) Delnero, SANER 26 (catalogue eyeball outstanding, print-check wave). (2) Cohen, CLAM (1988). (3) CDLI's record (P342972) — unread; CDLI is still down.
Dragon/serpent flag: none. Nothing of the kind is preserved.
o? 2′: [... ]-x-si ⸢gul?⸣-[... ] [...] destroyed(?) [...]
o? 3′: [... ]-⸢ri⸣-bi KU-ra mu-ta-ta [...] he touched [...] (the corpus glosses the form with tag, "touch")
o? 5′: [... ] di-x [... ] ⸢ku₄?⸣-re-eš [...] (traces) [...]
r? 1′: [... ]-ni ba-x-[... ] [...] (traces) [...]
r? 2′: [... ]-re na₄ im-x-x-x-[... ] [...] the stone [...]
r? 3′: [... ] mu-un-tu-ub! e₂-x-x mu-un-zi [...] it trembled [...] the house [...] it rose [...]
r? 4′: [... ]-x-e-re-e bi₂-dib KA mu-BU [...] he passed [...]
7 served line-units: 0 whole · 2 part · 5 fragment · 0 invented. The part-lines are the trembling-and-rising line (r? 3′) and the passing line (r? 4′).
Seven endings, four of them verbs of motion, and the motion is all upward and violent: touched, trembled, rose, passed. It reads like the edge of a storm-theophany — the part of a hymn where the god arrives and the house shakes — but the god's name stood in the lost beginnings, and the reading leaves the arrival anonymous, the way the clay does.
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