YOS 11, 20
CDLI P310390. Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 65 ("very crude script"). Shows affinity to CUSAS 32, 31c (evil eye).
Transliteration
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| (line 13b precedes) | |
| 1 | e-ze-et pa-al-ḫa-at |
| 2 | i-la-at a-mu-ra-at |
| 3 | ù ši-i ba-ar-ba-ra-tum |
| 4 | [m]a-ar-ti A-ni-i[m] |
| 5 | [s]a-sa-a-ti!? na-ar-b[a-ṣú?!-ša?] |
| Lower Edge | |
| 6 | ...x ri [...] ra [... |
| Rev. | |
| 7 | [...as-ku]-pa-ti ma-za-[zu-ša ] |
| 8 | [al]pam ([G]U4!) a!-li!-ka i!-ka-a[l!-la] |
| 9 | i!-mi!-ra šu-u[r]-bu-ṣú° x[(...)] |
| 10 | ṣé-eḫ-ru-tim ḫu-nu-qú |
| 11 | ú-ḫa-an-na-aq ra-ab-bu-[t]im! |
| 12 | i-ša-qi-a-am me-e pí-iš-ri |
| 13a | tu. |
| Obv. | |
| 13b | en.nu.ru |
Translation
1 She is fierce, she is frightening,
2 she is a goddess, she has awe-inspiring radiance(?),
3 Indeed, she is a she-wolf,
4 the daughter of Anum,
5 the grass is [her la]ir,
7 [..the th]reshold [her lo]cation,
8 She is ho[lding back] the walking [b]ull,
9 [She is forcing(?)] the donkey to sit.
10–11 She strangles the small-ones
11–12 She compels the big ones to drink the amniotic water.
13a–b Incantation formula.
Commentary
2: Based on later Lamaštu incantations a-mu-ra-at is probably a mistake for na-mu-ra-at, "she has awe-inspiring radiance" (see, e.g., SpTU III 84: 62 ÉN ez-ze-et šam-rat ìl-at na-mur-rat u ši-i bar-ba-rat mā[rat dA-nu]).
5, 7: For this tentative restitution, see the late Lamaštu incantation 4R 58ii 61 (cited in CAD M/11, 237,4a): GIŠ.GI manzassa Ú.KI.KAL(=sassatu) rubussa.
9–12: For these lines and for the meaning of the term mê b/pišri as "amniotic water", see Wasserman 2003a, 89.
11: For ra-ab-bu-[t]im!, see Mayer 2003, 231–232.
13a–b: Curiously, the scribe began to write the colophon on the last line of the reverse and finished it on the first line of the obverse (so, already Farber, YOS 11, p. 65). If not merely due to scribal clumsiness (cf. Farber's remark, ibid: "very crude script", and the mistake in l. 2), this practice could perhaps be explained as a purposeful attempt to seal the text, i.e. to prevent further writing on the beginning of the obverse, which, for some reason, was left uninscribed.
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. 7135; view on seal.huji.ac.il.