CUSAS 32, 25b

SEAL no. 7177 · MS 2780 · Incantations · snake · Unknown · 8 lines · 25 words · 61 signs · 1 Sumerograms

A rectangular tablet with two incantations, each on a different side of the tablet. On the obverse: an incantation against an aching belly, see George 2016, 127 (II.E.6). CDLI No. P251829

Transliteration

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15 su-pa-ni-ir mu-du-ḫi-a

16 a-ga sag ir-ši da gim? ši gìr?

17 su-pa-ni-ir mu-du-ḫu-uš

18 ag-še-er mu-du ru-pa ru-pa?

19 KA.inim.ma muš-gar-[kam?]

20 i-na šīr(uzu!) šaḫîm(šaḫ) ta-ra-ka-as-[sú]

21 ù ma-ša-ak gi-ri-ti[m]

22 ta-ra-ka-as-s[ú]

Translation

15-18 Supanir mudubia . . . supanir mudubus agser

mudu rupa rupa.

19 Incantation formula for "placing" a snake.

20 You bandage [him] with pig meat.

21-22 Or you can bandage him with the skin of a moray eel.

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. 7177; view on seal.huji.ac.il.