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RA 66, 141b

SEAL no. 7167 · AO 7682 · Incantations · scorpion · Unknown · 14 lines · 37 words · 90 signs · 3 Sumerograms

Formulae in syllabic Sum. Ritual.

Transliteration

1         ka-na-na ka-n[a]-na

2         nam-ti-la nam-t[i-l]a

3         nam-ti-la PI.TE-ús-sa

4         nam-gu-la nam-ta-gu-la

5         ka-ta ka-ta hé-a

6         tu-ú-en-nu-ri 

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7         wa-ru-uq i-na ba-aš-tim

8         ša-ḫur i-na ba-ṣí 

9         im-ta i-šu i-na na-al-ba-ni

 

Rev.

10         ša li-ib-bi šēri(UZU-ri)

11         te-le!?-eq-qé!-e-ma

12         mu-uḫ?-ḫi? zi-iq-ti

13         ta-pa-aš-ša-aš-ma

14         i - ne - e - iš            

Translation

1–6      (Sumerian spells)

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7         It is yellow in the shrubs,

8         it is deadly quiet in the sands,

9         it is venomous in the brick mold.

10–13  You will take out what’s in the flesh and rub the sting with oil –

14         He will recover.

  

Commentary

The text shows no mimation at all. Note also the ideogram UZU-ri. The text could be late Old Babylonian, but Nougayrol 1972, 141, n.1: "Ecriture paleobabylonienne".

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. 7167; view on seal.huji.ac.il.