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YOS 11, 10

SEAL no. 7080 · YBC 1970 · Incantations · against diseases? demons? · Larsa area (uncertain) · 20 lines · 41 words · 101 signs · 7 Sumerograms

CDLI P304534.

Transliteration

0' [qitmum]

1' [š]a-ap-ta-š[u-ú]

2' [ka]-lu-ú pa-nu-šu-ú

3' [kišassu(GÚ?]-BI) mi-ra-ḫu-um pîšu(KA?-šu-⌈ú⌉)

4' [m]i-iq-tum a-ta-al-lu-u[m?]

5' [l]i?-ib-ba-⌈šu⌉-ú

6' pîšu(KA)-šu-ú mi-iq-tum

7' šu-ru-pu-um bu-da-šu

8' [u]l!?-da-šu-ú-ma bubuʾtum(BU.UL)-ma

9' [(x)] um-ma-a-šu mu-ši-tum

10' [i]š-ta-ka-a[n] i-ṣi-ri-im

11' ⌈x⌉ ma ta x [x] x ⌈li⌉-qú-⌈um]

12' i[š?]-ta-ka-an li-qú-um ta/ša

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13'         [          ] ik-x [    ] ik [                    ] 

14'         [          ] te?-[                               ] 

15'         [         ] x [                                    ]

16'         [              ] ra x [                           ]

17'         [                     ] x [                        ]

 

 Rev.

c. 12 lines illegible.

Translation

0'–2'  [Black alum-paste/angry] are his lips, yellow paste - his face.

3'–4'  His [neck] is a little snake, his mouth is a miqtum-disease.

4'–7'  An eclipse is his heart, his mouth is a miqtum-disease, his two shoulders are (causing) frost.

8'–9'  It is the pustule who bore him, his mother, during(?) the night.

10'     He is regularly found in the field.

11'–12' …. … in(?) the palate, he is regularly found in(?) the palate.

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Ritual instructions?

Commentary

General: The text is a partial parallel of at least three post-OB incantations: CT 51, 142: 16–21; CT 44, 33 rev. III; Maria deJong Ellis, JCS 31 (1979), 218: 16ff.  (Refs. courtesy M. Stol - private communication 03.02.09). A partial OB parallel to the opening lines is CUSAS 32, 7e. It is not clear whether ll. 13'ff. and the rev. belong to the same incantation or to a different one.

0'–2': To these lines see the parallels in CT 51, 142: 16–17; CT 44, 33 iii: 10'–13' and JCS 31, 218: 16–17. For qitmum, “black Alum paste” and kalûm, “yellow-ochre paste”, see Stol 1998, 347f. For a different possibility to restore the first line, see CUSAS 32, 7e: ii 7' ag-ma ša-ap-ta-šu

8'–9': Parallels to these lines: CT 51, 142:19 reads [ālittim(TU) u]l-da-aš-šu bubuʾtu(BU.UL)-ma um-ma-šu a-lit-ti “The one who bore him is the pustule, his birth-giving mother” (JCS 31, 218: 20: ālittm(TU) ul-da-aš-šu bubuʾtu(BU.UL)-ma um-ma-š[u] a? ši-im-tu4). – I read BU.UL for bubuʾtum, “boil, pustule”, although the usual Sum. equivalent is Ù/U4/U.BU.BU.UL, BU.BU.UL, Ù/U4.BÚ.BÚ.UL.

9': [(x)] um-ma-a-šu mu-ši-tum: The syntax is ambiguous. I translate mušīum as loc. but a nominal sentence, “his mother is the night”, is not impossible.

10'–12': Parallels to these lines: CT 51, 142: 20–21: [i-n]a ṣe-e-ri iš-ta-na-ak-ka-nu a-šam-šá-a-tú / [i-n]a libbi(ŠÀ-bi) āli(URU) iš-ta-na-ak-ka-nu lem-ne-t[ú?]; JCS 31, 218: 21-22: i-na ṣe-e-ri iš-ta-na-ak-ka-n[u] ⌈a⌉-šam-ša-a-ti / i-na libbi(ŠÀ) āli(URU) iš-ta-na-ak-ka-[nu] lem-ne-ti, “dust storms are regularly found in the field, evils are regularly found in the midst of the city”. – For līqum, “palate”, see CUSAS 32, 7e: ii 15', ii 19'.

13'–14': After the separation line probably come ritual instructions:  [...] ik-x [..]-ik-[...]  for kikiṭṭû? and  [ ... ] te?-[.. ] for a 2 sg. m. verbal form.

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. 7080; view on seal.huji.ac.il.