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AoF 45, 196

SEAL no. 26519 · IM 160096 · Incantations · Baby · Unknown · 19 lines · 45 words · 127 signs · 1 Sumerograms

Transliteration

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Obv.
1at-ta-ma ta-ta-ma-ar
2ša-ru-ur ša-am-ši
3a-mi-ni i+na° li-bi ú°⌉-mi-ka
4ki-a-am la te-p[u]-⌈
5ar-ri-⌈ig-mi⌉-ka
6ú-la i-ṣa-⌈la-al i⌉-li
7bi-ti-i[m] ú-la i-ṣa-làl?⌉
8i-ta-ar bi!-ti-im
9ù-li-ḫa-zí ši-tu
10ma-an-na-am-mi lu-uš-
11pu-urù? lu-wa-i-ir°
12re?-i im-{I}-⌈mi⌉-r[i]
13ar-ḫa-ti ú ka-⌈lu-ma⌉-ti-im
14li-il5-qù-ni-mi
15ši-ta ša ar-ḫa-ti-im?⌉
16ù ka-lu-ma-ti
17[ši]-ip-tum ú-la ia⌉-[ti?]
Rev.
18[ši-pa-a]t Ni-gi4-r[i-ma]
19ù Ni-ka-ra-a[k]

Translation

1–2      You have already seen the beams of the Sun:

3–4     Why have you not done so in your mother's womb?

5–7      Through your crying the god of the house cannot sleep!     

8–9      Slumber does not catch the goddess of the house!

10–11  - Whom should I send to summon

12–13  the shepherds of sheep, cows, and lambs

14–16  so that they grab for me the slumber of cows and lambs? 

17–19  The incantation is not mine: it is the incantation of Nigirim and Ninkarrak.

Michael P. Streck and Nathan Wasserman, Sources of Early Akkadian Literature (SEAL), seal.huji.ac.il. No commercial use is allowed. Published under CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives). Reproduced unmodified. Cite as SEAL no. 26519; view on seal.huji.ac.il.