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YOS 11, 12c

SEAL no. 7185 · YBC 4625 · Incantations · toothache · Larsa area (uncertain) · 9 lines · 45 words · 104 signs · 1 Sumerograms

CDLI P305848. Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 62.

Transliteration

Obv.
29 [tūltum? ... ...  iṣ-ṣa]-ba-at

30 [... ... ...] x ba? x

 
Rev.
31 [x x x] a i?-tu?!-úr a-na aš-ri⌉ [x x x]

32 [x]-x-gi/zi ka-ak-k[a-b]i š[i?-in?-ni?]

33 [x x š/t]a-am i-na-ad!(DA)-di mu-ḫi ši-ni-šama-ru-uš-ti

34 [ka]-ak-ka-ab-ti-ša ta-la-ap-pa-ta-ma

35 [ša-l]a-ši-šu ki-a-am ta-qá-ab-bi

36 [ka-ak-k]a-ab ka-ak-ka-b[i] ši-in-ni ma-ar-ṣa-at

37 [mu]-⌈ru⌉-uṣ ši-in-ni-ia ta-ba-al a-wa-tum a-wa-at bu-[ul?-ṭim?] 

Translation

Obv.

29  .... [the worm(?) se]ized(?)

30 ...

 

Rev.

31 ... ... May it/she not return to [its/her] place ...

32–33 Oh my ...! Oh my sta[r...]! ... [my] [achi]ing to[oth]!

33 He/it is placing ...  on the top of her aching tooth

34 You (or: she) will touch her star-ornament

35 and thus you (or: she) will say three times:

36 "[Oh s]tar! my star! my tooth is aching!

37 Carry away [the pa]in of my tooth!" The spell (lit. word) is a healing spell.

Commentary

29: Restoration tentative. 

32: By the end, what is left of the last broken sign could be ŠI, and then, perhaps š[i?-in?-ni?].

33: At the beginning, perhaps [ma?-ru?-uš?-t]a-am, but space is probably not enough. What follows is, if correctly understood, a form of nadûm (for its use in a similar context, see CAD Š/3, 50a)

37: Note the designation awātum for “incantation”. A similar use is found in YOS 11, 15:4 // YOS 11, 29: 24.      

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. 7185; view on seal.huji.ac.il.