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.