ZA 75, 198ff.c

SEAL no. 7146 · IB 1554 · Incantations; Love Literature · love · Isin (mod. Ishan Baḥriyat) · 11 lines · 45 words · 134 signs · 2 Sumerograms

The tablet was found broken and sealed inside a vase in the corner of a wall. The present tablet was originally cut of a 3-columns tablet, before(?) our text was inscribed on it.  CDLI No. P355910.  

Transliteration

42 na-ra-mu-um na-ra-mu-um

43 ša iš-ku-nu-ka É-a ù ^dEn-líl

44 ki-ma ^dIštar i-na pa-ra-ak-ki-im wa-aš-ba-at

45 ki-ma ^dNa-na-a i-na šu-tu-mi-im wa-aš-ba-at

46 a-la-mi-ka e-né-e-tum ma-aq-li-a-am e-ra-am-ma

47 aš-ša-a-tum mu-te-ši-na i-ze-er-ra

48 bu-ut-qá-am ap-pa-ša ša-qá-a-am

49 šu-uk-na-am ap-pa-ša ša-pa-al še-pí-ia

50 ki-ma ra-am-ša iš-qù-ú e-li-ia

51 ra-mi li-iš-qá-a-am e-li ra-mi-ša

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52 ka-inim.ma ki-ág-gá-kam

Translation

42–43 Loved-one! Loved-one! – whom Ea and Enlil have created.

44–45 You(m.) sit like Ištar in (her) dais; You(m.) sit like Nanāya in (her) treasury.

46 I will encircle you!

46–47 The ēntu-priestesses love the burning; The wives hate their husbands.

48–49 Cut down her haughty nose! Place her nose under my foot!

50–51 Just as her love is higher than me, may my love get higher than her love!

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52 Incantation of the lover.

Commentary

For commentary, see Wasserman 2016, 263.

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. 7146; view on seal.huji.ac.il.