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CUSAS 32, 29b

SEAL no. 7089 · MS 3082 · Incantations · dog · Unknown · 4 lines · 13 words · 25 signs · 1 Sumerograms

Preliminary edition courtesy A. R. George. CDLI P252091

Transliteration

Obv.

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17        [x ]x-bi i-gi te-li-a

18        [x x] te-li-a

19        [x x-ka? e-li-a

19a      ⌈KA-inim⌉ ur-gi7-ra

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Translation

Obv.

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17        ... you climbed my dike(?),

18        You climbed [....]

19        ... I climbed your...

19a      Incantation (against) a dog.

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Commentary

General:       George (2016, 47) notes that the language of this short incantation is unidentified, raising the possibility that it contains a reference to the igitelûm "a monoculus". Since the colophon makes it clear that the incantation is against a dog (as the previous text in the same tablet), the following reading is cautiously presented, assuming the text is a fully Akkadian one.

17:      i-gi: hard-pressed, i-gi could stand for īku "dike".

17–19:       The verb involved is probably elûm with ventive, hence tēlia and ēlia.

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. 7089; view on seal.huji.ac.il.