RA 36, 4a

SEAL no. 7050 · Incantations · to calm a crying baby? for a sick child? · Mari (mod. Tell Ḥariri) (uncertain) · 14 lines · 52 words · 49 signs · 1 Sumerograms · bilingual

Obv. Akkadian, rev. Hurrian. This badly broken incantation may very well be for a sick child (not destined to calm a crying baby).

Transliteration

beginning broken

1–4 (broken)

5 ^dSîn i-[… … ]x-ni-ma

6 [l]i-bi […]-⌈x⌉-ku-ti-šu

7 […] ma [… … …]

8 […] x [… … …]

9 [… … … …]

10 [m]a-n[am lu-uš-pu-ur … …]

11 a-na [...] x [… … …]

12 me-e [ellūtim? … …]

13 li-iš-qí-a-<ni>-im [… …]

14 ú-zu-un [… … …]

15 li-im-ḫa-[ṣa … …]

16 ṣeḫrum(LÚ.TUR) li-[nu-uḫ …]

17 a-na-ku [… …]

Translation

beginning broken

1–4 (broken)

5 Sîn .[… … ] me(?)

6 Bel[ly(?)… …] him(?)

7–9 ... ...

10–11 - “Wh[om shall I send] to [(summon) the Daughters of An, seven and seven(?)]?

12–13 May they offer to drink [...] [pure(?)] water [...]!

14–15 The ear of [... …] may they(?) stri[ke… …]

16–17 May the baby r[est… …] [may] I [sleep(?)…]!

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. 7050; view on seal.huji.ac.il.