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lyrics
'An Incantation Prayer: Ishtar 24'
Excerpt sung in Akkadian by Labros Kantzos
Text follows in Akkadian* and English
[*Notated with "Latin letters and various diacritical marks")
(Edition: Anna Elise Zernecke)**]
"[…]
11. IGI.MEŠ-ki a-ta-mar lip-pa-ṭir ka-si-ti
12. la tu-mar-re-e e-šá-ku u dal-ḫa-ku
13. ki-ma šá ina tar-kúl-li maḫ-ṣu e-mat ZI-tim
14. e-pi-iš taq-bi-i e-pu-uš
15. dINANA lu-ú kaš-šá-pi lu-ú kaš-šap-ti
16. šá at-ti ti-de-ma ana-ku la i-du-ú
17. ina ri-kis kiš-pi ḪUL.GIG u ZI.KU5.RU.DA […]"
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"[…]
11. I have seen your face. May my constraint be loosened!
12. Do not be slow! I am confused and disturbed.
13. (My) life has become like that (of someone) beaten with wooden poles.
14. What you said to do, I did.
15. Ishtar! My sorcerer or my sorceress,
16. whom you know, but I do not know,
17. In an assemblage of sorcery of hate and cutting of life, […]"
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