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BM 97331a

SEAL no. 7197 · BM 97331 · Incantations · Unknown · 10 lines · 57 words · 98 signs · 3 Sumerograms

Transliteration

Obv.

1 aṣ-ba-at šamê(AN)?aṣ-ba-at pí ka-ka-bi

2 i-na ša-ma-ia

3 pa-ši-ri ùpa-ši-ir-tim

4 pa-ši-ir-ti? i+na li-li⌉-ša ⌈x⌉ [(x)] ⌈x⌉

5 ⌈x⌉ [x x (x)] ⌈GÍR?.TAB?⌉ [š]a zi-iq-t[ì?]-⌈šu?

6 [x x x x] ⌈i?-na?⌉ ni ⌈x (x)⌉ ⌈mi? lu?⌉ ⌈x (x)⌉

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7 [x x x x] ⌈ar?⌉ ma zi

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8 [x x x]-⌈x⌉-ri i-na bu-ud ⌈ta-ri-tim

 

Lower Edge

9 […] ⌈x⌉ za-aq-tu-um-ma

10 [x x x] li!-ta-pa-aṣ pa-še-er-ša

Translation

1–2 I seized the mouth of the sky?! I seized the mouth of the stars above me (lit. my sky)!

3 (I seized) the mouth of my male and female releaser!

4 My female releaser in the night (lit. her night) […]

5–6 […] the scorpion of which its sting […]

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7 […]

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8 […] on the shoulders of the nurse

9 […] the pointed one!

10 […] may her releaser be smashed!

 

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. 7197; view on seal.huji.ac.il.