YOS 11, 5a

SEAL no. 7193 · YBC 4616 · Incantations · worm (leeches) · Larsa area (uncertain) · 8 lines · 67 words · 185 signs · 4 Sumerograms

CDLI No. P274696. Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 61. First photo Klaus Wagensonner.

Transliteration

1 ^dA-nu ir-ḫi-a-am ša-me-e ša-mu-ú er-ṣe-tam ul-d[u-n]im

2 er-ṣe-tum ú-li-id bu-ša-am bu-šum ú-li-id lu-ḫu-ma-a-am

3 lu-ḫu-mu-um ú-li-id zu!-ba! zu!-u[b]-bu ú-li-id tu-ul-tam

4 tu-ul-tum mārat(DUMU!.SAL!) ^dGu-la lu-ul-lu-um-tam lu-ub-bu-ša-at da-mi ḫa-ab-ra-at

5 a-⌈ak?⌉-[ki?]-lu da-mi ṣe-eḫ-ri-im ú-pé-el-li-a-am i-ni-i-šu

6 id-⌈di ši-ip-tam ^dDa-mu ù ^dGu-la⌉ ú-ni-ra ⌈tu-ul-tam⌉ [e?-bi?]-⌈tam?⌉/ iṭ-bu-uḫ-šu-⌈nu-ti⌉ a-na ṣ[e?]-eḫ?!-r[i?-im?]

7 ip-te pí-i-šu iṣ-ṣa-bat tu-la-a-am iš-ši-i-ma i-ni-šu i-[ni?-iq?]

8 ši-ip-tum ú-ul ia-a-tum ši-pa-at ^dDa-mu ù ^dGu-la ^dD[a-m]u [i]d-di-ma a-na-ku el-qé

Translation

1 Anu begot the sky, the sky bore the earth,

2 The earth bore the stench, the stench bore the mud,

3 The mud bore the fly, the fly bore the “worm”.

4 The “worm”, the daughter of Gula, is clad in a l.-garment, thick with blood,

5 The de[vour]er of the child’s blood is reddening his eyes.

6 Damu cast the incantation and Gula slew the [thi]ck “worm”, slaughtered them for the (sake of the) c[hil]d,

7 He opened his mouth, took the (mother’s) breast, raised his eyes, (began to) s[uck].

8 The incantation is not mine, (it is) the incantation of Damu and Gula. Damu cast (it) and I took (it).

Commentary

For a detailed commentary and discussion, see Wasserman 2008 (app. 2010).

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. 7193; view on seal.huji.ac.il.