YOS 11, 8

1         The sikkatum-disease (pox?), fever, falling, the šanudû-disease,

2–4         the ašûm-disease, the samānum-disease, the epqēnum-disease, the šalattinum-disease, and the girgiššum-disease

5–6         have descended from the star of heaven - here the earth has received them.

7         Raise up girgiššum-disease, do not lie down!

8–9         Ascent to heaven like smoke, like a cloud [...].

10–11         You have caused the herds of the field, the lambs, the child on the shoulders of the nurse to be entirely dark.

12–13         'Whom should I send to the Daughters of An so that they will put out

14–17         pox(?), fever, falling, the šanudû-disease, the ašûm-disease, the samānum-disease, the epqēnum-disease, the šalattinum-disease, and the girgiššum-disease?'

    1-4: For the list of diseases see Stol 1993, 11-12 and Wasserman 2007. On the sāmānu-disease see Finkel 1998 and Kinnier-Wilson 1994.

         6: annānum erṣetum šunūti imḫur: the independent accusative pronoun (instead of the expected attached one) is meant to emphasize that the earth has received these disease (and not others). This word order creates also thematic chiastic construction between l. 5 and l. 6: ištu <-> annānum; kakkab šamê <-> erṣetum; urdūnim <-> imḫur.

         8: ki-ma qù-ut-ri-i[m ] e-l[i] š[a]-ma-n[i?]: with Farber's coll. (contra CAD Q, 326 d). For the suffix -āni with the terminative function see Wasserman 2003, 116, n. 105.

         9: Restoration following CAD I/J 107 b1.

         10: tu-uš-ta-aḫ-di-ir: The parallel text RA 88b: 14' reads qú-tu-úr bu-lu-um, and YOS 11, 7: 10 reads bu-lu-um li-wi-ru pa-nu-š[u!] - thus proving that (ḫ)adārum Štn means here (and in JCS 9a: 12) "to darken" (not "to cause unrest, fear", as suggested by AHw 11^b "immer wieder in Furcht setzen").

         11: b[u-ud] ta-ri-tim: with AHw 1330,1^a. CAD P 550^b, 4a and CAD T, 232b, 1a understand ina pūt as prepositional phrase. (See also JCS 9a: 12).

         14–17: Note that the first two diseases are in the acc., depending on the verb li-bé-el-lu-nim (l. 13), while the rest of enumerated diseases are in the nom., mirroring the list at the beginning of the incantation.