TIM 9, 73b
According to unofficial digging records the tablet was found in HL 3-287 R. 11 L. III below stairs. CDLI No. P223469
Transliteration
Rev.
4 [uš]-⌈ša⌉-ap-ka ra-ma-ni
5 a-[ra-a]ḫ-ḫi-ka pa-ag-ri
6 ki-ma ídLU.UḪ.DA.X [ x ]
7 ir-ḫu-ú ra-ma-a[n-ša]
8 tu-en-ne-nu-ri
9 ri-iš ši-ip-ti i-nu-ma
10 [x ] ša ba? ni? i?x bu
Translation
Rev.
4 I will enchant you, my self!
5 I will inseminate you, my body!
6–7 As the river LU.UḪ.DA.X [ x ] has inseminated itself
8 Incantation formula.
9 The beginning of the incantation “when......”.
Commentary
rev. 6: Cooper (1996, 50) reads: ki-ma a-sa-lu-uh da x [ ]. Cavigneaux 1999, 264–265 (based on photos) follows, reading: ki-ma a-sa-lu-uh uš?-pu?! (pagaršu)], translating “As Asalluhi(?) ... (wašāpum?) [his body]”. The proposed reading is not free of difficulties, as there seem not to be enough space for [pa-ga-ar-šu]. In parallel texts (studied by Cooper 1996 and Cavigneaux 1999) the speaker's self-insemination is compared in two ways: either to the way some god “inseminates” himself (that is, clearly, what Cooper and Cavigneaux had in mind), or the speaker's self-insemination is compared to the way a river “inseminates” itself. Our reading – following Wilcke 1985b, 208 – prefers the latter option. A river ídLU.UḪ.DA.X [ x ] is unknown to us.
rev. 9: Cavigneaux (1999, 265: “beginning of the spell, when...”) seems to take rēš šipti as a performing instruction. With CAD R, 288, 4c (and AHw 1247,1) it is not impossible that this is a scribal remark giving the incipit of the (group of?) incantation(s): “When...”. A practice of referring to an incantation by its incipit is unknown in the OB corpus of incantations.
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