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BiOr 75, 19f.

SEAL no. 7063 · Incantations · childbirth · Unknown · 20 lines · 45 words · 119 signs

Rev. not inscribed.

Transliteration

Obv.

1 [l]i-ti-mi

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2 [l]i-ti

3 li-ti tu-la-da-am

4 li-ti iṭ-ḫe-am?

5 [l]i-ti i-qá-da?-da?

6 [q]á-qá-ra i--r[a-aq]

7 li-ti i-sú-u[q?]

8 ar pa ḫa ap-pi-ša

 

Reverse

9 i-mu-<ur>-ši dEn-líl i-ba⌉-[ki]

10 dEn-líl i-la-ka di-ma-šu

11 a-mi-ni-midEn-líl

12 a-mi-<ni> dEn-líl i-ba-ki

13 ṭa-ba-at

14 li-ti-ia la pé-ti-tim

15 ú⌉-ni-qí-ia la wa-li-tim

16 {x x} ma-na-mi lu?-⌈⌉-pu?-ur?

 

Upper Edge

17 [lu-wa]-e⌉-ra-[am]

18 [l]i-im-qú-tam qá-qá-ar›-šu

 

Left Edge

19 li-tum

20 li-li a-na a-aš-[…]

 

Translation

1 Oh my cow!

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2–4 My cow, my cow is giving birth, my cow drew near (the appointed time).

5–6 My cow is bending down?, she is sprink[ling the gr]ound (with her tears?)

7–8 My cow brushes the … with her nose.

9–10 Enlil saw her (and) was crying, Enlil, his tears were flowing.

11–12 – “Why is Enlil, why is Enlil crying?”

13 – she is good! –

14–15 – “(Over) my cow, not deflowered, (over) my kid who never gave birth”.

16–17 – “… Oh whom should I send and instruct?”

18–20 May it fall to the ground! The cow, may she rise to […]!

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. 7063; view on seal.huji.ac.il.