AMD 1, 243 (fig. 1)

SEAL no. 7082 · BM 79125 (Bu 89-4-26, 422) · Unknown · 17 lines · 51 words · 103 signs · 15 Sumerograms

A Late Old Babylonian cursive script. With a ritual. Unusual orthography. The transliteration and translation follow Finkel 1999.  

Transliteration

Obv.

1 urruk([G]ÍD.DA.GÍD-uk) ⌈bir⌉-ki

2 šar-úh lá-an-šu

3 ištanaḫḫiṭ(GUD.DA) ki AG illak(DU) ki? DU x

4 ina pîšu(KA-šu) nà-ši ne-el_x?(ŠID)-šu

5 ašar(KI) iš-šu-ku me-ra-nam íb-ni

6 šipat(KAxUD) é.én.nu.ru

7 šiptum(KAxUD-tum) ul(NU) ia-át-tum₄

8 šipat(KAxUD-át) ^dDa₇(UD)-mu ù ^dGu-⌈la⌉

9 ^dGu-la iqbi(BÍ.IN.DUG₄)-⌈ma⌉

10 a-na-ku ád-di

Rev.

11 šipat(KAxUD) é.én.nu.ru

12 a-na libbi(ŠÀ) ne-ši-ik kalbim(UR)

13 MURUB₄? BUR Ì tapaššaš(ŠÉŠ?-ša-aš)

14 hé-me-tam tašakkan(GAR.RA-an)

15 šiptam(KAxUD) á-ni-tam

16 tà-nà-di-ma

17 i-ne-e-eš

Translation

Obv.

1–2 Long of leg, proud of form.

3 He jumps like a..., walks like a…

4–5 In his mouth he carries his semen: wherever he bit, he bore a puppy.

6 En-e-nu-ru incantation.

7–8 The incantation is not mine: the incantation is of Damu and Gula.

9–10 Gula said (it) – I recited (it).

Rev.

11–12 En-e-nu-ru incantation to confront a dog-bite:

13–14 You anoint the … with oil from a bowl. You apply ghee.

15–16 Recite this incantation, and he will recover.

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. 7082; view on seal.huji.ac.il.