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HS 1889

SEAL no. 30342 · HS 1889 · Nippur (mod. Nuffar) · 31 lines · 115 words · 258 signs · 12 Sumerograms

Transliteration

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Obv.
1[É]N ri-it-ti an-zi-i zu-qa-qí-pat
2ù ši-i kaš-šap-tum i-na-ak-ka-ma
3kiš-pi-ša
4lu-pu!(TE)⸣-ḫa-aš-šim-ma kīma(GIM) manzât(dTIR.AN.NA) šá-me-e
5lu-zi-qa-šim-ma kīma(GIM) šadî(imKUR.RA)
6 amurri(imMAR.TU)
7lu-ḫa-li-iq ur-pa-ta-šá lu-ḫa-li-iq ūm(U4)-šá
8lu-sa-ap-p[i-i] kiš-pi-šá ša i-te-né-ep-pu-šá
9ia-ši
10 na-áš-⸢pa⸣-ra-ti ša iš-ta-⸢na-pa⸣-ra
11a-na ia-[ši]
12ṣa-lil né-bé⸣-ru ṣa-li[l kāru]
13[mārū(DUMUm]) malāḫi(MÁ.LA[Ḫ5) kalīšunu]
14ṣa-al⸣-[lu]
15[eli dalti(giš]I[G) u sikkūri nadû ḫargullū]
Rev.
beginning broken
16[ina na-pa-ḫ]i šamši(⸢d⸣U[TU) dayyān nišī]
17[ša] i+na nāri(ÍD) im-lu-⸢ [lū ṭīdūša]
18ša i+na dalti(gišIG) iš-lu-p[u lū o o-ša]
19ša i+na su-qí iš-bu-šu lu-⸢ [eper]
20še-pi-ša
21ša i+na ḫur-ri iš-du-du lu-ú mu-ša⸣-[ṭi-ša]
22ša i+na da-ba-ab-<ti> il-qu-ú
23lu-ú da-ba-ab-ti pi-ša
24 lu-ú ba-al-tu ša qa-qa-di-ša
25i+na na-pa-ḫi šamši(dUTU) a-pa-šar-šu-nu-ti
26im-ḫur-lim li-im-ḫa-ṣa le-es-sa
27[gi]šGAN.U5 li-pa-ši-ra kiš-pi-ša
28maštakal(⸢úIN⸣.NU.UŠ) li-ter-ra
29a-ma-as-sa a-na pi-ša
30[g]am-lum li-paṭ-ṭi-ra [k]i-ṣir
31ki-pi-id lìb-⸢bi⸣-šá

Translation

Obv.

1 [Incanta]tion. The claw of Anzû is a scorpion,

2 [Bu]t she, the witch, piles up

3 her witchcraft.

4 Let me emerge against her like the rainbow (in) the sky,

5 Let me blow against her like the east wind

6 and the west wind.

7 Let me destroy her cloud, let me destroy her storm,

8 Let me scatter her witchcraft, which she has been practicing

9 against me.

10 And the messages that she has been sending

11 against me.

12 Asleep is the ford, asle[ep is the quay],

13 The [s]ailors, a[ll of them,

14 [a]re asle[ep],

15 Upon [d]oo[r and bolt, locks are placed].

 

Rev.

beginning broken

16 [At the ris]ing of Šama[š, the judge of people],

17 [What she ha]s pinched from the river, [let it be her (own) clay]!

18 What she has picked up from the door, [let it be her (own) ...]!

19 What she has gathered in the street, let it be [dirt] of her (own) 

20 foot!

21 What she has dragged from the pit, let it be [her] (own) hair com[bings]!

22 What she has taken from a conversation,

23 Let it be the conversation of her (own) mouth!

24 And the pride of her (own) head!

25 At the rising of Šamaš I shall undo them!

26 Let the imḫur-līm-plant strike her cheek!

27 Let the gišGAN.U5-wood undo her witchcraft!

28 Let the maštakal-plant return

29 her word to her mouth!

30 Let the bent wand release the knots of

31 the machination of her mind!

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. 30342; view on seal.huji.ac.il.