VS 17, 9
Collated (NW) 2/2/2011.
Transliteration
Obv.
1 x [...
2 is-[s]i20-il li-ib-bu-um i[m°-mi?-ir?]
3 nam-ri-ri ma-li ki-i-ma w[a-ar-ḫi-im]
4 a-na a-ap-ti-šu ma-am-ma ú-u[l iṭeḫḫi?]
5 ša-ak-na-at-m[a°] dan?-nu šu-te-pu-u[š°]
6 iṭ-ṭe4-ḫa li-ib-bu- um
7 [mi?]-i-ma ta-ri-bu i-ba-aš-ši e?-š[i?-iš?]
8 [tu6-e]n-ni-in-nu-ra-bi?
(Rev. uninscribed)
Translation
1 ...
2–3 The heart became blown-up, became swollen, radiating like the m[oon].
4–5 Nobody […] to its opening.
5–6 Since (the opening) is well-placed, the strong one is at work(?): the heart was approached.
7 [What]ever you have replaced will be as new!
8 [tu6-e]n-ni-in-nu-ra-bi?
Commentary
2: Both esēlum and emērum may describe a bloated body.
3: This line, which according to our interpretation describes the inflamed belly, is partially cited in CAD N/1, 238d (no translation).
4: The verb ṭeḫûm is commonly used in magical and medical contexts, describing the approaching disease or demon, or of the healer. – The ‘window’ follows the metaphor of the radiance in the preceding line. It probably describes euphemistically the patient’s rectum.
5: The ‘strong one’: an elliptic description of the healer at work?
6: If libbum is in nom. then iṭṭeḫa is in the N-stem (almost unattested). Alternatively, libbum stands in the loc. adv. and the verb is in G-perfect.
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. 7204; view on seal.huji.ac.il.