YOS 11, 16b
CDLI 306413. Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 64. Following another incantation (YOS 11, 16a // YOS 11, 77b, against a scorpion?), this spell aims probably to heal a sick sinew (cf. l. 8). Erasures and omissions of signs.
Transliteration
Obv.
4 ri-mu ri-ma-ni / še20-le-bu la-ba-tu
5 in-ḫu ka-ab-ta-ti / da-du li-ib-bi
6 dDa-mu i-di-ma / ši-pa-as-sú ib-lu-uṭ
Rev.
8 ú-du-uš šer'ān(SA) ra-ma-ni-šu / lu la pa-ga-ar-šu {NU}
9 ka-al-bu si20(ras.)-im-mi / ra-ma-ni-šu(ras.)-nu
10 li-li-i-ku
11 tu-ú-e-ni-in-nu-ri
Translation
4 Wildest of bulls! fox! lioness!
5 The trouble of the mind, the darling of the heart:
6–7 Since Damu has cast his incantation – he got well, (now) I will cast my incantation so that he will get well:
8 Renew his own sinew, if not his (Text: their) body -
9–10 Just as (lit: may) the dogs lick their own wounds.
11 Incantation formula.
Commentary
6: Instead of the finite verb ibluṭ, perhaps the modal form libluṭ ("Since Damu has cast his incantation, may he get well")? Note the mistake in the same verb in the next line.
7: Pace Dijk 1985, 24 (followed by Wasserman 2003a, 75), the reading a-na AN di-li-ip-tam is to be corrected to a-na-an-di li-ib-<lu>-uṭ (suggestion U. Gabbay). The dissimilation in anandi (instead of the expected anaddi) may point to late-OB.
8: Reading u-du-uš šer’ān(SA!) ramānišu (suggested by A. Shaffer, oral communication) corrects Wasserman 2003a, 8. The confusion of the scribe at end of the line, lu la pa-ga-ar-šu {NU}, is mirrored by the mistakes at the end of l. 9, ra-ma-ni-šu(ras.)-nu. As for the sequence lū lā pagaršu, we take it to denote a negative concession "if not...".
10: Another usage of the verb lêkum is found in YOS 11, 87: 22.
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