YOS 11, 14b

SEAL no. 7155 · YBC 4599 · Incantations · maškadum · Larsa area (uncertain) · 7 lines · 34 words · 117 signs

CDLI P305833. Coll. Farber YOS 11, p. 63.

Transliteration

Rev.

1 [m]a-aš-ka-du-[um ma-aš-k]a-du-um ú-ul ma-aš-ka-du-um šu-ḫu-ú-um

2 i-na š[u-li]-im! na-ar-ba-ṣu-šu i-na {ma-an-za-as-sú} i-me-ri m[a-an-z]a-zu-šu

3 na-ša-ak ba-ar-ba-ri-um i-na-aš-ša-ak ša-ḫa-aṭ kal-bi-im e-la-m[i] ⌈i-ša⌉-ḫi-iṭ

4 e-re-eb bu-lim i-ru-u[b w]a-ṣe-e bu-lim uṣ-ṣi

5 [ṣ]i-i ma-aš-⌈ka⌉-⌈du⌉-⌈um⌉ ⌈la⌉-a-ma ik-šu-du-ka ṣú-ur-ru na-ag-la-b[u (ša)

^d]Gu-la

6 t[u₆]-én-é-nu-⌈ri⌉

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Translation

Rev.

1 maškadu[m!] mašk]adum! – not maškadum (but) šuḫûm (is its true name).

2 In the street is its lair; in between the sheep is its location.

3 It bites a wolf-bite; it attacks an Elamite-dog's attack.

4 It enters (with) the entering of the herds, it goes out (with) the going out of the herds.

5 Go out maškadum before the flint razors of Gula will reach you!

6 Incantation formula.

Commentary

1: For the exact specification of the disease name, in the very same formula see: Böck 2007, 290: 153–153a; 293: 167–168. See also Reiner 1995, 59 n. 248.

5: la-a-ma ik-šu-du-ka ṣú-ur-ru na-ag-la-bu: the same expression is found in AMT 12, 1: 47. This magical warning is found in the Lamaštu incantation BIN 2, 72: 10–12. For ṣurru naglabū cf. Wasserman 2003: 11 and also Erra (Cagni 1969) IV: 57. Finally, according to the copy, there is hardly enough room for [ša ^d]Gu-la in the break at the end of the line.

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