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An Emesal hymn to Enlil and Aššur (KAR 359). Wrath, raging — then the turn the genre exists for: “appeasing the heart.” Sung at Assur to Enlil and the city's own god together.
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A Vigslist translation — witness reading. Status: published reading. Printed in Vigslist Translations (Piece 6, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23587830). Built 2026-10-22 from the live eBL record.
%es, Emesal, the liturgical dialect of the gala singersWITHHELD. The live eBL record serves a transliteration and lists three references, none an edition: the KAR hand copy; Borger's Handbuch notes, which name the piece twice over — HKL I, p. 103: "Sumer. Hymnus auf Ellil (Mullil) und Assur" ("Sumerian hymn to Enlil and Assur"), and HKL II, p. 57: "Sumer. an Enlil und Assur." It carries zero EDITION references and zero #tr.en translation lines, and no uncurated references beyond those. The desk print check (2026-10-22) located no edition and no translation of this text in any language.
An Emesal hymn — the dialect itself says who sang it: the gala, the lamentation priests, whose office was to sing Enlil's anger down. And anger is the obverse's weather: "your wrath," "your raging," then the turn the whole genre exists for — ša₃-la₂-su₃, "appeasing the heart." Aššur is named, the sprinkling-man (the purifier with his water) appears, "the people of your land" stand in the lines. The reverse gathers the names: Mullil — Enlil under his Emesal name — twice, Aššur again, "the people, toward destruction," "your name, shining…" It is a scrap of the great calming liturgy tradition, carried to Assur and sung there to Enlil and the city's own god together. Only scraps: twenty line-units, none whole.
The transliteration is the eBL record's, reproduced as served; %es (Emesal) is the record's own tag, kept on every line. Brackets [ ] are breaks in the clay; # a damaged sign. Emesal words are rendered by their standard meanings, and where the line is too broken the page says traces and stops. Nothing is restored from the parallel balaĝ tradition, however formulaic the lines look — the temptation is named here precisely so it is not done silently.
Counts: 20 line-units — 0 whole, 6 part, 14 fragments, 0 invented.
1′. %es [x x i]b₂?-ba#-[zu? …] "[…] your [wr]ath […]" (fragments — ib₂-ba, "wrath/anger," the storm-word of the Enlil liturgies, broken at both ends)
2′. %es [x] sumur-ra-z[u? …] "[…] your raging […]" (fragments — sumur, "raging, furious" — the god's anger again, second word of it to survive)
3′. %es [š]a₃-la₂-su₃ ra?# (x) […] "Appeasing the heart […]" (part — ša₃-la₂-su₃, "heart-appeasing" — the liturgy's whole purpose in one compound: the singing that settles the god's heart)
4′. %es {d}a-šur₄-ra […] "For Aššur […]" (fragments — {d}a-šur₄, the god Aššur, named and the line gone)
5′. %es lu₂ su₃-su₃ x […] "The man who sprinkles […]" (fragments — lu₂ su₃-su₃, "the sprinkling man," the purifier of the rite; the record follows the word with an unread sign and a break)
6′. %es igi-du₈ kur-ra-zu […] "Who sees your land […]" (part — igi-du₈, "the one who sees/looks upon"; kur-ra-zu, "your land/mountain")
7′. %es nu su₃-su₃ […] "Not sprinkling […]" (fragments — nu su₃-su₃, "does not sprinkle" — the rite failing or refused; the line will not say more)
8′. %es uĝ₃ ma-da-zu 7/niĝ₂ x […] "The people of your land […]" (part — uĝ₃ ma-da-zu, "the people of your land"; what follows is a numeral or "thing" in a broken sign the record could not decide — left undecided here)
9′. %es [(x)] mu#/du₈?# un sumur-ra […] "[…] the people, enraged […]" (fragments — un, "the people"; sumur-ra, "enraged" — the anger now on the human side of the line, and the side ends)
1. %es i-bi₂ KU-a x […] (fragments — i-bi₂ is "smoke" in Emesal spelling, but KU-a after it will not construe; given as trace rather than guessed into poetry)
2. %es {d}mu-ul-lil₂ […] "Mullil […]" (fragments — {d}mu-ul-lil₂, Enlil under his Emesal name; the line is the name and a break)
3. %es {d}a-šur₄-ra […] "For Aššur […]" (fragments — the second god named again)
4. %es {d}mu-ul-lil₂-la₂ […] "Of Mullil […]" (fragments — the name in the genitive; its noun is broken away)
5. %es UN niĝ₂-gilim-ma-še₃ […] "The people, toward destruction […]" (part — UN niĝ₂-gilim-ma-še₃: "the people, toward the ruin-thing" — the calamity the hymn sings against. On this piece the fate the liturgy exists to avert is stated outright)
6. %es mu-zu zalag₂ du₈ igi […] "Your name, shining, […] the eye […]" (part — mu-zu, "your name"; zalag₂, "shining, bright"; igi, "eye/face." A praise-phrase in pieces, kept in pieces)
7. %es a-ba ta mu nu# […] "Who […] your name not […]" (fragments — a-ba, "who?"; mu, "name"; nu, "not" — a question about the name, broken mid-asking)
8. %es [(x)] x sa₆-ga-t[a …] "[…] from goodness […]" (fragments — sa₆-ga, "goodness/beauty," in the ablative; traces around it)
9. %es [x n]e-ne g[e₁₇? …] (fragments — traces only)
10. %es [x x] dim₃-me-er#-[re-e-ne …] "[…] of the gods […]" (part — dim₃-me-er-re-e-ne, "of the gods" (plural, Emesal form of diĝir) — the divine assembly at the hymn's broken end)
11. %es [x x (x)] x […] (fragments — traces; the rest of the surface is broken away)
None. No ušumgal, no muš, no mušḫuššu, no bašmu, no ṣerru appears anywhere in the served text.
Copy: Erich Ebeling, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts II (WVDOG 34, 1923), no. 359. Genre notes: Rykle Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur I (1967), p. 103; II (1975), p. 57. Transliteration: the eBL Fragmentarium record for VAT 10507 (CC BY-SA 4.0), pulled live 2026-10-22; no editor named on the record. This reading: the program's, built from the served transliteration only.
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