YOS 11, 9a

SEAL no. 7079 · YBC 5619 · Incantations · diseases (various). samānum disease · Larsa area (uncertain) · 9 lines · 40 words · 73 signs · 16 Sumerograms

CDLI P306686. First photo Klaus Wagensonner. Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 61. Rev. has   Sum. incantation against the  samānum  disease (Finkel 1998, 85). Ritual.

Transliteration

Obv.

1 sí-ka-tum i-ša-tum mi-iq-tum bé-[nu-um]

2 šu-ru-up-pu-ú-um ù sa-ma-nu-[um]

3 ⌈KÉŠ⌉? GÌR? KÉŠ GÌR? UR KA ^d⌈X⌉

4 NÍG.GU₇!? NU.TUK MU.GÁ MU.SA₄

5 x ŠUL? ^dUTU

6 x id? iš? ne ^dEn-ki ^d[ ]

7 t[u₆]-én-é-nu-[ru]

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8 ka-inim-ma ni-ip-šum SU!/KI! NAM x[...]x

9 ⌈sa⌉-ma-nu-um šammum(Ú) bappirum(BAPPIR) BA?

Translation

Obv.

1–2 The sikkatum-disease (pox?), fever, falling, epilepsy, shivering, and the samānum-disease,

3 Binding(?)... binding(?)...

4 He has nothing to eat, called me by name

5 ... youthful Šamaš

6 ...Enki...

7 t[u₆]-én-é-nu-[ru]

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8 Incantation. tuft of wool(?)...

9 The samānum-plant, beer-bread,...

Commentary

2: For šuruppû, "shivering, fever", see Stol 2007, 19.

3–4: Obscure.

8: Reading follow Farber, YOS 11, p. 61. Since the end of the text seems to list materials used for the magical procedure, ni-ip-šum may perhaps stand for nipšum B, "combed wool, tuft of wool, fluff" (CAD N/2, 248f.). nipšum A, "breathing, scent" is more difficult.

9: samānum šammum: the samānum-plant (Ú IŠ.LUM ; Ú sa-ma-ni), mentioned inUruanna II 30b: iii3 (cited in CAD S, 111^b), was probably a plant used as a remedy against the samānum-disease.

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