CUSAS 32, 31e

SEAL no. 7053 · MS 3103 · Incantations · baby · Unknown · 17 lines · 45 words · 115 signs · 3 Sumerograms

CDLI No. P252112

Transliteration

8 ib-ki ṣe-eḫ-ru-um id-da-li-ip

9 a-⌈ba⌉-a-šu

10 ḫa-ar-ra-an la ni-lim

11 u[m]-ma-šu uš-ta-li-ik

12 ⌈i-nu-ú⌉-ma i-na li-ib-bi

13 [u]m-mi-ka tu-ši-ba-am

14 [ḫ]a-al-pa-at re-e-ma-am

15 [l]u-ub-bu-ša-at ša-li-ta-am

16 ⌈a⌉-mi-i-ni ki-ma i-na-an-na

17 [wa?]-⌈ṣí?⌉ kār(KAR) ḫa-⌈il⌉-ti

18 [la? ta?-q]ú-lam-ma ki-ma qá-ni pa-da-ni-im

19 [lu-ka-a]b-bi-is-ka

20 [ki-ma] as-ku-up-pa-tim

21 [lu-te-t]i-iq-ka

22 [ . . .] ⌈x x⌉-di-im

23 [ . . .]-tim

24 [. . .]x

Translation

8–9 The little-one cried: woke up his father.

10–11 He made his mother take the road-of-no-sleep.

12–13 When you sat in the belly of your mother,

14–15 when you were enveloped with the womb, wearing the placenta –

16–18 why [don't you ke]ep silent, once you are out of the quay of labor?

18–19 [I will tr]ead on you like a reed of the path!

20–21 [I will cr]oss over you like (over) the threshold!

Commentary

10: For ḫarrān lā nīlim "road-of-no-sleep", see George 2016, 145. In this context, nīlum plays both on niālum "to lie down, to rest" (George, ibid) and on the homonym which means "semen".

16–18: Slightly different than George.

22–23: Perhaps the end of [... wi-il-]di-im [ša a-wi-lu-ú-]tim, see OECT 11, 2: 2 (SEAL no. 7049).

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. 7053; view on seal.huji.ac.il.