K 15970 + K 16685[via caspo]

Obverse
oo NaN  (beginning obverse missing)
o 1'o 1'

[...] x [...]

[. . .] . . . [. . .]


o 2'2'

[KA.INIM.MA] ŠU.IL₂.[LA₂ ... dx.KAM*]

[It is the wording of] a hand-rai[sing prayer to . . .]


o 3'3'

EN₂ [dUTU] EN tiz-qa?-[ru ...]

Incantation: [O Shamash], lord of battl[e . . .]

o 4'4'

DI.KUD [la] ṭa-ʾ-ti x [...]

o 5'5'

EN reme₂-nu-u₂ ša₂ kul₂-[la-ta ...]1

The merciful lord, who [. . .] al[l].

o 6'6'

dUTU ina E₃-ka kul-lat UN-[MEŠ ...]

O Shamash, in your rising, all the peopl[e . . .]

o 7'7'

bu-ul dGIR₃ nam-maš-ša₂-a [...]

The animals of Shakkan, the livestock [. . .]

1As E. Jiménez pointed out to me in personal correspondence, lines 5ˊ-7ˊ have close affinities with K.3365, rev. 16ˊ-18ˊ (// STT 63, obv. 25ˊ-26ˊ), attesting an incantation-prayer to Shamash (Shamash 7 in Mayer's catalog, 1976: 411) used in a namburbi-ritual. For the text, see Maul 1994: 307-308.