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YOS 11, 7

SEAL no. 7160 · YBC 5640 · Incantations · against disease (sikkatum = pox?) · Larsa area (uncertain) · 19 lines · 46 words · 137 signs · 1 Sumerograms

CDLI No. P306707. First photo Klaus Wagensonner. Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 61. Rev. uninscribed.

Transliteration

Obv.

1 i-na ša-me-e ⌈e?⌉-[lu?-tim?]

2 in-na-pi-iḫ i-ša-a-⌈tum⌉

3 sí-ik-ka-tum im-ta-qú-ut

4 e-li ka-li bu-li-im

5 úḫ-ta-am-mi-iṭ

6 la-a-le-e ka-lu-mi

7 ù ṣe-eḫ-ḫe-ru-tim i-na bu-⌈ú⌉-ud / ta-ri-i-tim

8 a-na um-mi-ia dNin-girim(ḪA.KUD.A.DU!)

9 qí-bí-a-ma

10 bu-lu-um li-wi-ru pa-nu-š[u!]

11 li-iḫ-du dSumuqan

12 li-iḫ-du ša-am-mu-um

13 li-ri-iš šu-lu-ú-um

14 lu-uš-ta-ka-an ša-am-ša-a-tim

15 i-na šu-pa-a-at i-li ra-bu-tim

16 i-na te-ek-ni-i

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Lo.E.

17 KA.inim.ma udu-gag-šub-ba

Translation

1–2     Fire has been inflamed in the p[ure?] heaven,

3         The sikkatum-disease (pox?) has fallen

4         over the entire herd,

5         burned up

6         the kids, the lambs

7         and the children on the shoulders of the nurse.

8–9       Speak to my mother, Nin-girim:

10         “May the face of the herd be bright!

11         May Sumuqan rejoice!

12         May the herb rejoice!

13         May the path be happy!”

14         May I keep carefully placing solar-disks

15         on the pedestals of the great gods

16         appropriately.
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17         Incantation for a sheep (inflected) with sikkatum

Commentary

  8: For the different spellings of girim see Krebernik 1998–2001, 363f.

         15: For šupāt ilī rabûtim, see George 1987, 50.

         17: For udu-gag-šub-ba: šá sik-[ka-ti], “a sheep (inflected) with sikkatum”, listed in an enumeration of different kinds of sheep, see Ḫḫ XIII 44 (with OB monolingual forerunners). 

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. 7160; view on seal.huji.ac.il.