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No. 2.

AN OLD BABYLONIAN ORACLE(?).

This text is very enigmatical. The interpretation of it here put forth is given with great reserve.

Transliteration and Translation.

(i)

1. gal-X^[1] kud-du
2. garaš-bar zid-da
3. Al-la-^dKal
4. mega-išib-bi ama gub
5. nam-ṣir-ge
6. men mega-išib bur-pad-da
7. gal. . . .
8. . . . . . . .

(i)

1. The great victim (?) is cut open;
2. the oracle comes forth.
3. O Alla-Kal,
4. the wise priest firmly establishes (it).
5. Of the apparent fate
6. I, the wise priest, am beholding the whole.
7. The great. . . .
8. . . . . . . .

(ii)

1. bùr-dub
2. ^dEn-lil-lal
3. ^dEn-ki-ta
4. ģe-gál-ne
5. ki-^dEn-ki gub
6. nam-šar-a-ge-a
7. en mu-ģe-gál
8. me-ģi-la
9. [men] mega-išib-maģ
10. [ki] ^dEn-zu na

(ii)

1. The destructive axe
2. Enlil
3. from Enki
4. verily will take.
5. Standing with Enki
6. in wisdom
7. the lord verily will receive it;
8. verily he will guard it!
9. I, the wise high priest,
10. whom Enzu exalts,

(iii)

1. dingir-dingir-ra
2. an-šar-ru

(iii)

1. the gods
2. address.

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1. See p. 23 ff.