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RA 88, 161a

SEAL no. 7168 · M. 15289 · Incantations · scorpion · Mari (mod. Tell Ḥariri) · 13 lines · 60 words · 133 signs

CDLI 472691 marks wrongly that the tablet is in the Musée d’Art et d’Histore, Geneva, registered as MAH 16016.

Transliteration

1          a-la-ap er-ṣé-e-tim e-te-lum

2          bu-ru-um ek-du-um mu-na-ki-pu ša-am7-ru

3          qa-lu?!-um mu-ug-da-ru-um mu-na-x⌉-[…]

4          ša-am7-rum i-na ki-sa-a[l] ir⌉-[….]

5          ka-ri-iṣ-ma i-na Ap-si-im ṭi4-da-šu

6          ul-da-aš-šu a-su-ru-um na-aš-pa-ar mu-ti?!-[im]

7          zi-ba-sú gi-ri⌉(-)i    (-) ta-ri im-tam

8          ⌈qa⌉-[ar-ni i]-šu qa-qa-da ⌈ú-ul i-[šu]

9          [x x x x x x x] x x ir […]

 

Rev.

1'         ki-ma ši?-it? […]

2'         ši-ip-tum ú-ul i-ia-[t]um ši-pa-a[t dDa-mu?]      

3'         be-el ši-pa-tim ù dNin-kar-a[k? …]

4'         be-el-et ṣé-[ri-im …]

  

Translation

1          The bull of the earth, noble one,

2          frantic calf, constantly-goring, raging,

3          swift, pulling back, ...[

4          fierce in the courtyard ...[

5          In the Apsû its clay was pinched,

6          the footing of the wall bore it – the envoy of death.

7          Its tail is fire, carrying poison,

8          [It has] h[orns, it] has no head.

9          ... ... ...

 

Rev.

1'         ...

2'         The spell is not min[e], it is the spel[l of Damu(?)],

3'         the lord of spells and of Ninkara[k..],

4'         the lady of st[eppe(?)].

Commentary

6: Reading this line with George NABU 2010/05.
 
7: Restoration provisional.

  

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. 7168; view on seal.huji.ac.il.