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AMD 1, 286b

SEAL no. 7084 · YBC 8041 · Incantations · dog · Unknown · 11 lines · 21 words · 69 signs · 3 Sumerograms

Transliteration

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12      šu-pu dDÍM.ME

13      ki-ki-ṭa-ša mu-uḫ-ḫi

14      ni-iš-ki i-na KUŠ-x-x

15      ta-na-aṭ-ṭù-ma

16      a-sú-ur bīt(É) aš-ta-am-mi?⌉

17      te-le-eq-qé?-[e?]-ma

18      mu-u-i ni-iš-ki-im

19      te-sé-e-er te-ṭe-eḫ-i

20      ta-ra-ak-ka-as-ša

21      ba-li-i

22      ši-pa-at kalbi(UR.GI! Text:IGI)

Translation

12              ... Lamaštu.

13–15         Its ritual: You strike(?) the top of bite with a leather-…;

16–17         You take <dirt?> from the foundation wall of a tavern;

18–19         You smear it on the bite;

19–21         You draw near, you bandage her(sic) – and he will get better.

22             Incantation (against the bite of a) dog.

Commentary

General: Following A. R. George (private communication, April 2014), the incantation is against a dog (kalbi written UR.IGI for UR.GI), not “bedchamber” as suggested by Hallo. Still, the appearance of Lamaštu in l. 12 (if reading is correct) needs explanation.

15:       ta-na-aṭ-ṭù-ma:  not from nadû, but naṭû "to beat, whip".

16:       The key ingredient appears to have been omitted by mistake: probably dirt, or tin. – One expects asurî bīt aštammi 

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. 7084; view on seal.huji.ac.il.