UrIII Incantation Catalogue [Sticky]

[us4-he2-gal2]

Key and explanation:

TEXT # = Numbers according to G. Cunningham 1997, "Deliver Me From Evil: Mesopotamian Incantations 2500-1500 B.C."
[1] - PPub = Primary Publication reference, author/year, accompanied by explanation of the relevant abbreviations from the B48-Blue.pdf (AfO)
[2] - MUS # = Museum Number (tablet number) accompanied with Cdli reference number where available (http://cdli.ucla.edu/)
To access the 'search cdlicore' feature you need the Opera, safari or netscape web browsers, cdli also adds a zero to museum numbers example Ni 2177 becomes Ni 02177
[3] - Alternate edition/s = Recent treatments of the given Incantation text. If the tablet has not been re-examined, this will likely be identical with Primary Publication or "N/A." IMPORTANT - as many of these alternate publications have yet to be obtained, it will be difficult to say with authority say whether an english/german/french translation included in these.
[4] - Enenuru = Where a given incantation may be found on this board, who posted it, and alternatively who might have the incantation at their disposal if it has not been posted/brief notes about incantation/tablet.

Explanation of Museum Number Abbreviations:

Ni as in [Ni 2177] = Nippur tablets from the Arkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey.
See cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/Arkeoloji_Müzerleri,_Istanbul,_Turkey
CBS as in [CBS 8731] = . Catalogue of the Babylonian section (Museum of the University of Pennsylvania)
NBC as in [NBC 11106] = Nies Babylonian Collection, siglum of the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
UM as in [UM 29-15-367] = Tablet siglum of the University Museum, Philadelphia
VAT as in [VAT 6004] = Museum siglum of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (Vorderasiatische Abteilung. Tontafeln)
MLC as in [MLC 1093] = Morgan Library Collection, siglum of the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
AUAM as in [AUAM 73.1425] = Tablets in the collections of the Andrews University Archaeological Museum
AO as in [AO 11276] = Der Alte Orient (Leipzig 1900 ff.). 2) Museum siglum Louvre (Antiquités orientales)
A as in [A 30115] = tablets in the collections of the Oriental Institute, Univ. of Chicago
(Referring to cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/Abbreviations_for_Assyriology)

[us4-he2-gal2]

Ur III Incantations

22 Texts (1 duplicate) We currently have...

13

Translations in whole/part.

.

5 of 8 Divine dialogues (Enki's ritual instructions to Asalluḫi)

*Note May 7, 2011: 7 of the pending incantations are now confirmed as untranslated - the respective authors of the volumes listed by Cunningham provide transliterations only.







TEXT 51 -
[1] PPub: Anadolu Arastirmalari 6 pp176-77 - Kramer and Eren 1978
[2] MUS # [Ni 2177], Cdli: P274441 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Other Edition: TMH 6, app. 1, van Dijk, Jan and Geller, Markham J., 2003
[4] Enenuru: Obtained. (See Ur Incantations thread, reply 18)



TEXT 52 -
[1] PPub: HAV pp220 [Hilprecht Anniversary Volume 1909]
[2] Mus # [Ni 2187], Cdli: P250420 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Other Editions: Langdon 1910, 'Another bit nuri Text', Babyloniaca 3, p255ff, see also
TMH 6, 01b, van Dijk, Jan and Geller, Markham J., 2003
[4] Enenuru: Duplicate version Obtained [see UrIII Incantations thread, reply #4.]



TEXT 53 -
[1] PPub: ISET 1 217 [M. Çig - H. Kizilyay - S.N. Kramer. Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzelerinde bulunan Sumer edebî tablet ve Gauley parçalari (TTKY VI/13) (Ankara 1969)]
[2] MUS # [Ni 4176] lines 1-6 (same Compendium tablet as Text 54a,55), Cdli: P110482 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Other edition: N/A.
[4] *Text remains untranslated. [Part of a ceremony evident on ritual tablet 8241, see Ur III Ceremony and Ritual thread]



TEXT 54a -
[1] PPub: ISET 1 217 pM. Çig - H. Kizilyay - S.N. Kramer. Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzelerinde bulunan Sumer edebî tablet ve Gauley parçalari (TTKY VI/13) (Ankara 1969)]
[2] MUS # [Ni 4176] lines 7-12 (same Compendium tablet as Text 53,55), Cdli: P110482 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate edition: Krebernik 1984: Die Beschwörungen aus Fara und Ebla, Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag
[4] Enenuru: Obtained. See Ur III Ritual and Ceremony Thread, Reply $5 [Part of a ceremony evident on ritual tablet 8241]



TEXT 54b - (Duplicate of 54a) PBS 1/2 123
[1] PPub: PBS 01/2, 123, Lutz, Henry F., 1919 [PBS = Publications of the Babylonian Section, The Universi-
ty Museum (Philadelphia] volume 1 part 2 'Selected Sumerian and Babylonian texts' #123)
[2] MUS # [CBS 8380], cdli: P125403 (Photo availible)
[3] Alternate Edition: N/A
[4] Enenuru: Pending.



TEXT 55-
[1] PPub: ISET 1 217 [M. Çig - H. Kizilyay - S.N. Kramer. Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzelerinde bulunan Sumer edebî tablet ve Gauley parçalari (TTKY VI/13) (Ankara 1969)]
[2] MUS # [Ni 4176] lines 13-rev 9' (same Compendium tablet as Text 53,54a), Cdli: P110482 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate edition: N/A
[4] *Text remains untranslated [Part of a ceremony evident on ritual tablet 8241 , see Ur III Ceremony and Ritual thread]



TEXT 56 -
[1] PPub: ISET 1 p218 [M. Çig - H. Kizilyay - S.N. Kramer. Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzelerinde bulunan Sumer edebî tablet ve Gauley parçalari (TTKY VI/13) (Ankara 1969)]
[2] MUS # [Ni 13214], Cdli: P110483 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate edition: N/A
[4] *Text remains untranslated



TEXT 57 -
[1] PPub: PBS 1/2 130 Lutz, Henry F., 1919 [PBS = Publications of the Babylonian Section, The Universi-
ty Museum (Philadelphia) volume 1 part 2 'Selected Sumerian and Babylonian texts' #130]
[2] MUS # [CBS 8731] , cdli: P263556 (erronous?)
[3] Alternate Edition: P. Michalowski 1985; 'On Some Early Magical Texts', Orientalia 54. 216ff
[4] Enenuru: Obtained (See Ur Incantations thread, Ross, entry 1)



TEXT 58 -
[1] PPub: PBS 1/2 131 Lutz, Henry F 1919 [PBS = Publications of the Babylonian Section, The Universi-
ty Museum (Philadelphia), volume 1 part 2 'Selected Sumerian and Babylonian texts' #131]
[2] MUS # ?, cdli: P125404 (photo availible)
[3] Alternate Edition: van Djik,J. 1969: 'Vert comme Tišpak', Orientalia, Text D p.539ff
[4] Enenuru: Obtained. [See UrIII Incantations thread, reply # 9]



TEXT 59 - *** Erroneously listed as UR III in date in YOS XI - see now Sargonic Incantations thread
[1] PPub: YOS 11 73, van Dijk, J. 1985 [YOS = Yale Oriental Series (New Haven)]
[2] MUS # [NBC 11106], cdli: P142390 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate Edition: Possibly I. Finkel, in S. Maul, ed., Fs. Borger, 1998, 76-78 (cited as 6 NT)
[4] Enenuru: Obtained. [See UrIII Incantations thread, Madness, reply # 2]



TEXT 60 -
[1] PPub: YOS 11 81, van Dijk, J. 1985 [YOS = Yale Oriental Series (New Haven)]
[2] MUS # [NBC 10574]. cdli: P142391 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate Edition: N/A
[4]Enenuru: Obtained as is. [See UrIII Incantations thread, Madness, reply # 2]



TEXT 61 -
[1] PPub: NATN 8 Owen, David I., 1982 [Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts Primarily from Nippur]
[2] MUS # [CBS 7268], cdli: P120703 (Photo/Line art availible)
[3] Alternate Edition: N/A
[4] Enenuru: Transliteration only [See UrIII Incantations thread reply # 5] *** Reviewed NATN by D. Owen - no translation of this incantation in print.



TEXT 62 -
[1] PPub: Or 44 pp54-56, van Dijk, J. 1975 [Or = Orientalia 44 'Incantations accompagnant la naissance de l'homme']
[2] MUS # [UM 29-15-367], cdli P256177 (line art availible)
[3] Alternate Edition: William H Römer Ph, "Rituale und Beschwörungen in sumerischer Sprache', Farber et al 1987 p205ff/ see also Cunningham pg.69
[4] Enenuru: Obtained. [UrIII Incantations thread reply # 1]



TEXT 63 -
[1] PPub: Trouvaille 1, Henri de Genouillac 1911 [Trouvaille = "La trouvaille de Drehem"]
[2] MUS # Ist D — (?), cdli: P134674 (line art/transliteration availible)
[3] Alternate Edition/s: Ebeling 1931b 'Tod und Leben nach den Vorstellungen der Babylonier, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag/ also see Raymond Jestin 1947 'Textes religieux sumeriens', Revue d'Assyriologie 41, p55ff./ Also Kramer, S.N. and John Maier 1989 'Myths of Enki, the Crafty God, Oxford, Oxford University Press p101.
[4] Enenuru: Obtained in part. [UrIII Incantations thread reply # 6]


Text 64 -
[1] PPub: VS 10 189, Heinrich Zimmern 1913 [VS = Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der Königlichen (Staatlichen) Museen zu Berlin (Leipzig)]
[2] MUS # [VAT 6004], cdli: P142045 (photo availible)
[3] Alternate Edition: Irving Finkel 1980, 'The Crescent Fertile', Archiv fur Orientforschung 27, p37ff. Also possibly
Nougayrol, ArOr. 17, 220-221 [ArOr = Archív Orientální]
[4] Enenuru: Obtained. [Ur III Incantations thread, reply # 15]



Text 65 -
[1] PPub: VS 10 190, Heinrich Zimmern 1913 [VS = Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der Königlichen (Staatlichen) Museen zu Berlin (Leipzig)]
[2] MUS # [VAT 6082], cdli: P142046 (photo/line art availible)
[3] Alternate Edition: Maurus Witzel 1938b 'Auswahl sumerischer Dichtungen 1 (AnOR 15), Rome, Pontificum Institutum Beblicum
[4] Enenuru: Pending.



Text 66 -
[1] PPub: VS 10 193, Heinrich Zimmern 1913 [VS = Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der Königlichen (Staatlichen) Museen zu Berlin (Leipzig)]
[2] MUS # [VAT 5993], cdli: P142047 (photo availible)
[3] Alternate Edition: Niek Veldhuis 1993a "An UrIII Incantation against the bite of a Snake, a Scorpion, or a Dog' Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 83, p161ff.
Note also Neik Veldhuis 1994 'Correction to "An UrIII Incantation...", NABU, p55. [Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (Rouen - Paris 1987ff.)] see also
William H Römer Ph, "Rituale und Beschwörungen in sumerischer Sprache', Farber et al 1987 pp210-11 and possibly
W. Römer, AOAT 240 (1995) 419-423 [Alter Orient und Altes Testament]
[4] Enenuru: Obtained. [See UrIII incantations thread reply # 7]



Text 67 -
[1] PPub: YOS XI 37 van Dijk, J. 1985 (YOS = Yale Oriental Series (New Haven))
[2] MUS # [MLC 1093], cdli: P142388 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate Edition: Brummer, RT 28 (1906) (?) [Recueil des travaux relatifs à la Philologie et à
l’Archéologie Egyptiennes et Assyriennes (Paris)]
[4] Enenuru: Obtained as is [See UrIII Incantations thread, Madness, reply # 2]



Text 68 -
[1]PPub: ASJ 2 pp`5-60, Marcel Sigrist 1980 (ASJ = Acta Sumerologica (Hiroshima) see 'Une tablette d'incantations sumeriennes' p153ff.)
[2] MUS # [AUAM 73.1425] (same Compendium tablet as Text 69,70), cdli: : P101946, P101947 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate Edition: N/A
[4] *Text remains untranslated (Sigrist givest transliteration only).



TEXT 69 -
[1]PPub: ASJ 2 pp`5-60, Marcel Sigrist 1980 (ASJ = Acta Sumerologica (Hiroshima) see 'Une tablette d'incantations sumeriennes' p153ff.)
[2] MUS # [AUAM 73.1425] (same Compendium tablet as Text 68,70), cdli: : P101946, P101947 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate Edition: N/A
[4] Enenuru: *Text remains untranslated (Sigrist givest transliteration only).


TEXT 70 -
[1]PPub: ASJ 2 pp`5-60, Marcel Sigrist 1980 (ASJ = Acta Sumerologica (Hiroshima) see 'Une tablette d'incantations sumeriennes' p153ff.)
[2] MUS # [ AUAM 73.1425] (same Compendium tablet as Text 68,69), cdli: : P101946, P101947 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate Edition: N/A
[4] *Text remains untranslated (Sigrist givest transliteration only).
Additional note: Tablet AUAM 73.1425 (texts 68,69,70) listed as join in progress:
backup.cdli.ucla.edu/FMPro?-DB=CDLI_cat.fp5&-lay=WWW&-Format=cdli/cdli_templates/textlist.html&-Max=25&-op=bw&Owner=Horn&-Find



TEXT 71 -
[1] PPub: ArOr 17/2 Jean Nougayrol 1949 (ArOr = Archív Orientální (Prag), see 'Conjuration ancienne contre samana', p213ff)
[2] MUS # [AO 11276], cdli: P101856 (photo/transliteration currently unavailable)
[3] Alternate Edition: Adam Falkenstein and W. von Soden 1953 no.39 'Sumerische Hymnen und Gebete,' Zurich, Artemis-Verlag. See also possibly I. Finkel, in S. Maul, ed., Fs. Borger, 1998, 72-76
[4] Enenuru: Obtained - See Ur III Incantations thread, reply # 17.



TEXT 72 - (Akkadian)
[1] PPub: NATN 917 Owen, David I., 1982 (Neo-Sumerian Archival Texts Primarily from Nippur)
[2] MUS # A 30115 (See reply #3 below) , cdli: P121614 (line art availible)
[3] Latest Edition: I.J. Gelb 1957, 'Glossary of Old Akkadian (MAD 3), Chicago, The University of Chicago Press and
Benjamin Foster 1993, 'Before the Muses: An Anthrology of Akkadian Literature (two volumes), Bthsda, CDL Press
[4] Enenuru: Pending.



Please send all reports of oversights and blunders my way! Alternatively if you have any questions about the above information you can also send those my way.

[amarsin]

For entry no. 72, the museum number is A 30115, meaning that it's in the Oriental Institute in Chicago. I know little about such texts, so even though I'm staring at the line drawing, it's hard to make sense of it.


***Admin: Thanks for the tip! Ya I'd expect all UrIII incantations to be quite problematic, or so Ive read. One potential stumbling block on this one too, is cdli have it listed as being written in 'Sumerian' which is not the case. cheers

[cynsanity]

I have a translation of No. 72 somewhere... *starts searching*

[us4-he2-gal2]

In 2003, with the publication of a single book, the corpus of UrIII Incantations described by Cunningham six years earlier was doubled in number. While previously 22 such incantations had been identified, J. van Dijk and M. Geller in their "Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena" (TMH 6) have added an additional 23 UrIII Incantations, all of which have potential to tell us new things, to expand on or to possibly to reform earlier conclusions drawn about this genre. About the work itself, the tablets were first examined by van Dijk who was able to make copies of the tablets and begin the translation process however he was unable to finish. After his death, Geller (in 1998) expanded on and revised van Dijks beginnings and prepared the manuscript for final publication. As I've finally been able to access this work, I look forward to discussing it over the next weeks as its reviewed..and to that end, I've added a second UrIII Incantation Catalogue below. All incantations catalogued below are contained in TMH 6, (isbn 3477047070). All originate from Nippur and are in Sumerian.


Key and explanation:

TMH 6 1-23 = Each incantation is numbered according to the book (TMH 6 1 = Incantation text 1)
[1] - MUS # = Museum Number (tablet number)
[2] - Cdli reference number - see cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/
[3] - Enenuru = Where a given incantation may be found on this board, who posted it, and alternatively who might have the incantation at their disposal if it has not been posted/brief notes about incantation/tablet.


Explanation of Abbreviations:

- TMH as in 'Texte und Materialien der Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection' (vol. 6) Each incantation is numbered according to the book (TMH 6 1 = Incantation text 1)
- HS as in 'Hilprecht Collection in Jena'

UrIII Incantatoins

JENA

8 of 23 texts have been quoted currently

TMH 6 1
[1] MUS # [HS 2438]
[2] Cdli: P273911 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: See reply #4 on the UrIII incantations thread.

TMH 6 2
[1] MUS # [HS 1464]
[2] Cdli: P273888 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 3
[1] MUS # [HS 1540]
[2] Cdli: P273894 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: See reply #10 on the UrIII incantations thread.

TMH 6 4
[1] MUS # [HS 1473 + 1598]
[2] Cdli: P273901 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 5
[1] MUS # HS 1552
[2] Cdli: P273896 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 6
[1] MUS # [HS 1555 + 1587]
[2] Cdli: P145900 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 7
[1] MUS # [HS 1474 + 1500 + 1574]
[2] Cdli: P273889 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 8
[1] MUS # [HS 1573]
[2] Cdli: P273898 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 9
[1] MUS # [HS 1588 + 1596]
[2] Cdli: P273900 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: See reply #4 on the UrIII Incantations thread.

TMH 6 10
[1] MUS # [HS 2266]
[2] Cdli: P273906 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: See reply #12 on the UrIII Incantations thread.

TMH 6 11
[1] MUS # [HS 1600]
[2] Cdli: P273902 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 12
[1] MUS # [HS 1526]
[2] Cdli: P273892 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: See reply #12 on the UrIII Incantations thread.

TMH 6 13
[1] MUS # [HS 1374]
[2] Cdli: P273884 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending

TMH 6 14
[1] MUS # [HS 1556]
[2] Cdli: P273897 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: See Reply #13 on the Ur III incantations thread.

TMH 6 15
[1] MUS # [HS 2090]
[2] Cdli: P273904 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 16
[1] MUS # [HS 1497]
[2] Cdli: P273891 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 17
[1] MUS # [HS 2094]
[2] Cdli: P273905 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 18
[1] MUS # [HS 1496]
[2] Cdli: P273890 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: See reply #14 on the Ur III Incantations thread.

TMH 6 19
[1] MUS # [HS 2439]
[2] Cdli: P273912 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 20
[1] MUS # [HS 2315]
[2] Cdli: P273907 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 21
[1] MUS # [HS 1369a-b + 1571]
[2] Cdli: P273883 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: See reply #4 on the UrIII Ritual and Ceremony thread.

TMH 6 22
[1] MUS # [HS 2541]
[2] Cdli: P273916 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.

TMH 6 23
[1] MUS # [HS 1375]
[2] Cdli: P273885 (photo/line art available)
[3] Enenuru: Pending.