LKA 030[via caspo]


Obverse
o 1o 1	⸢EN₂ be-lu₄ gaš^!(be-)lu₄^!(ru) [...]1	Incantation: O powerful lord, [. . .]
o 22	SAG^!(KA)⸢KAL^!?⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [...]2	Fore[most . . .]
o 33	bu-kur₂ ⸢^dku-tu-šar⸣ [...]	Son of Kutushar, [. . .]
o 44	^d⸢U⸣.GUR kaš-kaš DINGIR-⸢MEŠ na⸣-[ram ...]	O Nergal, omnipotent one of the gods, belo[ved . . .]
o 55	šu-pa-a-ta ina ⸢AN⸣[^e ...]	You are manifested in the [. . .] heaven[s, . . .]
o 66	ša₂-qu-u man-⸢za⸣-[az-ka]	[Your] posit[ion] is exalted.
o 77	ra-bat ina E₂.[KUR.UŠ₂ ...]	You are great in Ar[allû (i.e., the neth[erworld), . . .]
o 88	⸢KI⸣ ^da-nim [...]	With Anum, [. . .]
	(rest of obverse missing)
Reverse
rr NaN	(missing)

1It seems the scribe might have written be-lu₄ a second time by mistake rather than gaš-ru. See also Mayer's collation (1976: 478 via Loretz).

2Ebeling (1953: 112) reads "KA + ?, nicht SAG(!)[.KAL]," but it seems likely to me that the KA at the head of the line is a mistake for SAG. Perhaps the copyist mistook a Babylonian SAG on the exemplar for a Neo-Assyrian KA. The following sign looks to have three horizontal wedges followed by at least one vertical. See the collation in Mayer (1976: 478). The lowest horizontal is smaller than the two above. It seems likely to me that this is the beginnings of a malformed KAL. If not, then our unfocused scribe has simply written the wrong sign for what surely must have been a KAL on the tablet.