ZA 75, 198ff.h

SEAL no. 7150 · IB 1554 · Incantations; Love Literature · love · Isin (mod. Ishan Baḥriyat) · 9 lines · 31 words · 97 signs · 3 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

Rev.

100 ra-ap-ša-am pī(KA)-^┌i-im^┐ la-wi-a-am uz-ni-in ^mI-^┌din-^dDa^┐-mu

101 pi-te pī(KA)-i-ka ki-ma KIN^ku⁶-im

102 li-i[b-b]a-ka za-as-sà-ru-um

103 aš-lu-pa-am [(x)] i-qì-ib-ka

104 él-qè [x x b]i li-ib-bi-[i]m

105 e-si-ir p[u?-ri]-^┌di^┐-i-ka

106 ku-uz-zi-ba-an-ni k[i-ma mi?]-ra-ni-im

107 ki-ma ka-al-bi-im ^┌a-ta^┐-la?-ak? ^┌e?-li?^┐-ia

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108 ka-inim-ma ú-i[n-nu-uš]-[kam]

Translation

Rev.

100 Big-mouth, curled-ears, Iddin-Damu!

101 Open your mouth like a K.-fish,

102 Your heart is a Z.-plant,

103 I pulled out(?) your heel,

104 I took the [..]. of your heart,

105 I locked your thighs,

106 Fawn over me like a puppy,

107 Keep coming(?) on me like a dog.

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108 Incantation of the maštakal-plant.

Commentary

For commentary, see Wasserman 2016, 272.

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. 7150; view on seal.huji.ac.il.