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YOS 11, 4b

SEAL no. 7172 · YBC 4593 · Incantations · scorpion · Larsa area (uncertain) · 12 lines · 53 words · 136 signs · 1 Sumerograms

CDLI P274695. With a ritual. Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 60. First photo Klaus Wagensonner

Transliteration

11        dSîn?(⌈ŠEŠ.KI⌉) i-na x [x x x ]-li?-im  

12        ki-a-am x [x x x x]-ú pí-ia-ma

13        ma-a-ri?⌉ [a?-wi?-lu?]-tim ma x tu ri?⌉ aq-bi-kum?⌉

14        ki-i la ta-am-ta-[li]-ik

15        ta?-wi-ir te-eṭ-ḫi

16        a-na ma-ka-al-ti ša i-ku-lu ṣu-ḫa-rum me-er-sà

17        a-li-ik ṣu-ḫa-rum li-ib-lu-uṭ-ma

 

Rev.

18        zu-qí-qí-pu-um li-mu-ut

19        ši-pa-at zu-qí-qí-pí-im

20        ki-ik-ki-ta-ša ša li-ib-bi u-zu-un i-me-e-ri

21        i-na mu-uḫ-ḫi sí-im-mi ta-ša-ka-an-ma

22        ši-ip-ta ta-na-an-di-i-ma ba-li-iṭ

Translation

11        Sîn in the ...  ... ...

12        thus .... .... of my mouth.

13        The person (lit. “son of mankind”) ... I told you:

14–15  "How, without considering, you came and drew near

16        to the bowl from which the boy ate the pie?!

17–18  Go! May the boy live and may the scorpion die!"

19        Incantation against a scorpion.

20–21  Its ritual: Place on lesion the substance (taken) from the inner ear of a donkey

22        and recite the (above) incantation, and he will recover.

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. 7172; view on seal.huji.ac.il.