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BiOr 75, 21f.

SEAL no. 7052 · Incantations · sick baby · Unknown · 13 lines · 25 words · 75 signs · 1 Sumerograms

Transliteration

Obv.

da-du-um-mi da-du-um

uk-ku-pa-ma

da-da-ru-um

ši-ni-iḫ-šu (ras.) mu-tu-um

am-ma-at mu-tu-um

ú-uṭ ba-⌈la⌉-ṭú

ši-in ši-z[i]-⌈i

 

Rev.

8 a-ma-ru ša DINGIR-[šu]

9 ú-da?!-am-mi-q[á-am/aš-šu]

10 ⌈d+En-ki dMarduk (⌈d?AMAR?.UTU⌉) dGu-la

11 ⌈dNin?⌉-⌈ka?⌉-⌈ra⌉-⌈ak?dNin⌉-[girim?]

12 ka-inim-ma [da?-du?]-um

13 ti-la-kám

 

Translation

1–2 The beloved child, beloved child is about (to die).

3–4 The ill-smelling daddarum-thorn, its blockage (in the child’s throat) is death.

5–8 Death – one cubit; life – half-cubit; two times one-third cubit – the (caring) glance of the god...

9–10 The god(?) and ... the god... improved (the baby’s feeling).

11 Ninkarak(?) (and?) the god...

12–13 Incantation to revive a [beloved ch]ild.

Commentary

For commentary, see Wasserman 2018, 22–23.

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. 7052; view on seal.huji.ac.il.