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CUSAS 32, 51

SEAL no. 7108 · MS 3061 · Incantations · flies/wasps · Unknown · 13 lines · 45 words · 121 signs · 9 Sumerograms

A close text is CUSAS 32, 50b. Cf. YOS 11, 5: 26 (George 2016, 116f.)

Transliteration

1 li-ri-a i-ti-la

as-ku-up-pu-um šu-te-re-bi mārē(DUMU)meš-ki

mārat(DUMU.MUNUS) É-a dAsal-lú-ḫe

a-na me-e ra-ma-ki-im i-ir-ru-ub

bīt(É) E-sikil-la as-ku-pa-as-sú bu-ra-šu

É-a lu-li-mu-um wa-ši-ib libbi(ŠÀ)bi-ša

ši-ir bītum(É) šu-ú-ur as-ku-pu

nam-ma-áš-ti šu!-ṣi-i ra-ma-an-ki

ar-ku-um e tu-ṣa-a-am-ma

10 ⌈ku-ru-ú-um e ta-at-ta-la-a[k

11 i-na pî(KA) ḫu-ur-ri-i-⌈ki⌉

12 ⌈na-ap-l[i]--um l[i-x x x]

13 ⌈tu⌉ [én-é-nu-ru?] 

Translation

1 Magic formula.

2 O threshold! keep letting your sons enter!

3–4 The son(!) (Text: daughter) of Ea, Asarluḫi, is entering to the bathing water.

5–6 The temple of Esikila, its threshold is (made of) juniper. Ea, the stag, dwells in it.

7 The house is flesh, the threshold a bull.

8 O my herd of crawling creatures, get yourself out!

9–10 O long one—you should not go out! O short one—you should not depart!

11–12 In the opening of your(f.) hole, let the blinker(?)... .

13 Tu-enurru incantation.

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. 7108; view on seal.huji.ac.il.