Palmyra Aramaic Cippi - Selene Suppressed by Su 100 CE

All Dates Determined by Letter Styles. Letter chart here.

Now at the Louvre with number AO 4998. Online at: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010127826

Drought Caused by Suppression of Selene by Su

(March 12, 2024) This text is blaming a drought on the suppression of the celestial lights (goddess Selene) by the dark new moon god Su.

It says:

  1. Scarcity is not due to intimidation.  Hu is getting involved with Su.  Nourishments can be made scarce by Su.  Thu is threading the drought.
  2. Lack of the radiant-ones (Selene's celestial lights) has fate-cursed Hu. Activity is fate-cursed.  Activate the fertility-fluids. Activate the strands (life threads/channels) with Thu.
  3. Activity can make a foundation for energy and the radiant-ones.  Su cannot nourish ....
  4. The gossamer-fabric (night sky) can attack activity.  Nourish the life-channel's activity.  Activity and ......
  5. Nourish the emanations of the filter (life network which filters divine fertility fluids).

Previous Translation Attempt Accepted by the Louvre

"For him whose name is blessed forever, the Good and the Merciful made (this altar) Batzebîda daughter of Gaddarsu for her own life and for the life of 'Abiddu her husband, in the month of Ab 5"

Reference

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010127826

(March 12, 2024) Now at the Louvre Museum, number AO 2204.  Letter assignments by Olmsted.  

Translation in Akkadian (Lev 77)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold)  
  1. IṢu  ḪaNu  E.  Ḫu  Ku  Su.  Bu  IṢu  Su.  Ṭu  Qu  ṢeṬu    (Lev 77.1)
  2. Lu  UḪu  Ḫu  U'a.  Ṣu  UYa.  Ṣu  Mu.  Ṣu  LaḪu  Ṭu (Lev 77.2) 

(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)

In English

  1. Scarcity is not due to intimidation.  Hu is getting involved with Su.  Nourishments can be made scarce by Su.  Thu is threading the drought.
  2. Lack of the radiant-one has fate-cursed Hu. Activity is fate-cursed.  Activate the fertility-fluids. Activate the strands (life threads/channels) with Thu.

(March 12, 2024) Now at the Louvre Museum, number AO 2204.  Letter assignments by Olmsted.  

Translation in Akkadian (Lev 77)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold)  
  1. Ṣu   UŠu  Gi  U  UḪu.  Su  Bu  Ya  .... (Lev 77.3)
  2. BiṢu  RaSu  Ṣu.  Bu  IDu  Ṣu.  Ṣu  U  Ḫ.... (Lev 77.4) 
  3. Bu  Zu  NaPu (Lev 77.5)

(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)

In English

  1. Activity can make a foundation for the energy and the radiant-ones.  Su cannot nourish ....
  2. The gossamer-fabric (night sky) can attack activity.  Nourish the life-channel's activity.  Activity and ......
  3. Nourish the emanations of the filter (life network which filters divine fertility fluids).