CUSAS 32, 27a
CDLI No. P251837
Transliteration
1 e-ti-iq ti-tu-ra-am
2 ú-ṣi na-ṣa-ba-am
3 aṣ-ba-at ku-ur-ši-da-am
4 ṣerri(muš) la ši-ip-tim
5 ši-in-na-šu mi-ir-me-er-ru-um
6 li-ša-[a]n-šu ḫe-e-ri-nu-um
9 ù li-ib-ba-šu
10 pu-lu-úḫ-ta-am ma-lu-ú
11 aṣ-ba-at ṣerram(muš) na-pi-ša-ni-a-am
12 ú-bu-ur-ri-iš i-la-ak
13 ⌈ù⌉ na-wi-ra-am
14 [ṣe]rri([m]uš) la ši-ip-tim
16 [s]à/⌈a⌉-bi-a-am a-la-al-ti-a-am
17 [d]a?-qá-am ṣerri(muš) me-e
18 [mu]-uš-ta-ḫi-ṭa-am ṣerri(muš) gušūrim(giš-ùr)
19 [mu-u]t-ta-aḫ-li-il-lam ṣerri(muš) a-pa-tim
20 [qá-a]l-la-am ṣerri(muš) bu-li-a-⌈tim⌉
21 [aṣ-ba-a]t ṣa-al-ma-am ṣerri(muš) karānim(geštin)
22 [aṣ-ba-a]t pi-i šerrī(muš)ḫá ka-la-ma
23 [aṣ-ba-a]t zi-ib-ba-ti-šu-nu
27 [x x x x x] ⌈x x⌉ ba-aš-ma-am
28 [x x x x x x x x] a-la-al-tim
1' …] ⌈x⌉
2' . . . ]x du ša?]
3' [x x x x x ]x li-bi-it-[t]um?
4' [x x x x x] ša-ḫa-ar-ru-um
5' [x x x x ]x mu-⌈ut⌉-tum
10' [ K]A.inim.m[a m]u[š?]-kam
Translation
1 It crossed a bridge,
2 it came out of a drain- pipe:
3 I seized the viper,
4 a snake impervious to spells,
5 whose twin fangs were a (lightning) flash,
6 whose tongue was sword-grass,
7 whose scutes
8 were fish-spawn
9 and whose inside
10 was full of horror.
11 I seized a sniffer snake
12 (as) it was moving through the fields,
13 and a shiny
14 snake impervious to spells,
15 [I] seized an eel-(snake),
16 a sabi'um-snake, an alalti'um-snake,
17 a little water-snake,
18 a snake climbing into the rafters,
19 a snake slithering through the windows,
20 a little snake of the wood-pile,
21 [I seized] a black snake of the vineyard:
22 [I seized] the mouths of all snakes.
23 [I seized] their tails,
24 I led (them) [between] two rushes,
25 [ ] rushes
26 [ ] x I tied [...]
Continuation too damaged for translation, then:
rev. 9' [Tu]-Enenuru-spell.
rev. 10' Incantation formula against [snakes.]
Commentary
11. For na-pi-ša-ni-um, hapax, see George 2016, p. 111, n. 11
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. 7178; view on seal.huji.ac.il.