OECT 11, 2
CDLI No. P274664 (no photo).
Transliteration
1 [a]t-ta-a-ma ṣ[e]-e[ḫ]-ru[m?]
2 [w]i-il!-du-um ša a-wi-lu-ú-[tim]
3 lu-ú ta-at-ta-ṣ[i]-a-am
4 lu-ú ta-ta-mar dUTU nu-r[a-am?]
5 a[m]-mi-ni i-na li-ib-bi um-[m]a-ka
6 ki-a-am la te-te-ep-pu-uš
7 ki-⌈i⌉ ša du-um-qá-am [t]e-pu-šu a-ba-k[a]
8 s[u-qá]-am ša ni-ši um-ma-ka tu-uš-bi-ʾu5
9 tu-uš-ta-aʾ-di-ir ta-ri-ta-am
10 ta-ad-da-li-ip mu-še-ni-iq-ta-am
11 i-na ri-ig-mi-ka i-li bi-tim
12 ú-ul i-ṣa-al-la-al
13 iš-ta-ar bi-tim
14 ú-ul i-ḫa-az ši-it-tum
15 [m]a-an-na-am lu-uš-pu-ur
16 a-na En-ki-du10
17 ša-ki-in ša-la-a-aš-ti
18 a-na ma-aṣ-ṣa-ra-tim
19 li-iṣ-ba-as-[s]ú-ú-mi
20 ⌈ša⌉ iṣ-ba-tu-ú ṣabitam(MAŠ.DÀ)
21 l[i]-ka-as-sí-[š]u-mi
22 š[a] ú-ka-as-sú-ú ar-wi-[am]
23 ⌈i?-na?⌉ ṣe-e-ri-im li-id-di-i[š?-šum?]
24 [m]é?-e-ḫi-ru-um ši-na-as-s[ú]
25 a-li-ik warki(EGIR) alpī(GUD.ḪÁ) ši-it-ta-šu
26 li-zi-ib-šum
27 a-di um-ma-šu i-de-ku-ú-šu
28 a-a i-ig-ge-el-ti
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29 KA.inim.ma l[ú]-tur!(Text:I) ír-šeš4-[a-kam?]
Translation
1–2 Oh you little-one, a human child,
3–4 you have verily come out, you have verily seen the Sun, the light.
5–6 Why have you not done so in your mother's womb?
7–8 Instead of doing good to your father, letting your mother pass (quietly) in the people's street,
9–10 you have caused the nanny trouble, you have deprived of sleep the wet–nurse.
11–12 Through your crying the god of the house cannot sleep!
13–14 Slumber does not catch the goddess of the house!
15–16 - Whom should I send to (summon) Enkidu,
17–18 the creator of the three night watches, (saying:)
19–20 “He who caught the deer may catch him (too) (i.e. the baby)!
21–22 He who bound the gazelle may bind him (too)!
23–24 May his fellow contestant (i.e. Gilgameš) in the field give him his sleep!
25–26 May (the constellation of) the One-walking-behind-the-cattle leave for him his sleep!”
27–28 Until his mother wakes him up, may he not awake!
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29 Incantation for a crying baby.
Commentary
For the allusions to the Epic of Gilgameš in this incantations, see Wasserman 2011.
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. 7049; view on seal.huji.ac.il.