YOS 11, 21c

SEAL no. 7142 · YBC 4598 · Incantations; Love Literature · love? · Larsa area · 7 lines · 40 words · 114 signs · 1 Sumerograms

CDLI P305832. Coll.Farber, YOS 11, p. 65. After a broken bilingual incantation and another, in Akk. only, to win a court-case (or love?), comes this incantation which is followed by two incantations in an unidentified language “to dr [ ive away ] a mongoose” ( ša šikkê ana ṭ [ ú - ru-dim ], ll. 31–32); and “to appease the heart” ( ša ŠÀ SI-SA, l. 33).

Transliteration

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26 e-ez-ze-ti ša-am-ra-ti ta-al-li-[a? ...] nu-úḫ ṣú-ur-ri ki-in iš-di-i-ka ši? [x]

27 lu-ta-ad-di a-na libbika(ŠÀ-ka) šu-ri-pa-am ta-ak-ṣ[i-a-tim]

28 i-na a-ma-ri-ia ki-ma Sé-ra-aš na-ap-še-ra ki-m[a x]-le-^┌AZ?°^┐ ru-u[m-mi]

29 aš-šum wa-aš-ba-ti-ma kam-sà-a-ku az-za-a-zu i-na mu-ú[ḫ-ḫi-ka]

30 lu-ud-di-kum ši-ip-tam ši-pa-at ṣūd pāni (IGI.NIGÍN.NA) lu-ul-qé-a-am-[ma?] / ša maḫ-ri-[ka]

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Translation

26 You(m.!) are fierce, you(m.!) are furious, you are going up(?) – be at peace my heart! Make firm your(m.) two foundations ...

27 Let me throw on your(m.) heart ice (and) frost!

28 When you see me – be soothed(m.) like (one who drinks) beer, like a ... rel[ease (me)]!

29–30 Because you(m.?) are sitting while I am kneeling, (because) I am standing at [your s]ervice, let me cast a spell on you(m.), let me take the spell of vertigo that is in front of [you].

Commentary

For commentary, see Wasserman 2016, 251.

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. 7142; view on seal.huji.ac.il.