YOS 11, 16a // YOS 11, 77b
YOS 11, 16 = CDLI P306413; YOS 11, 77 = CDLI P310429. Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 64 (YOS 11, 16).
Transliteration
YOS 11, 16a:1–3 = Text A; YOS 11, 77b:10–15 = Text B
A1 [ṣe(?)]-et er-ṣe-tim / ṭà-ab
B10 [ ]-ṣe-tim ṭa-ab
A2 ṣe-et a-sú-ri-im / na-pi-ša-am i-šu
B11–12 ⌈a⌉-sú-ri na-pi-ša-am! [i]-šu-ú
A3 it-ta-ṣe-a-ku-um tu-ú!(ras.) / ša a-wi-lu-tim du-up-pi-ir
B13–15 lu-ta-di-ku ta-a ša a-wi-lú-ti du-up-pi-ir tu-ú-en-nu-ri
Translation
A1=B10 [The gro]wth(?) of the earth - it is good,
A2=B11–12 That which comes from the lavatory has a stench:
A3 The spell of mankind has come out towards you - stay away!
B13–15 Let me cast the spell of mankind on you - stay away!
(incantation formula)
Commentary
General:
Corrected translation after George 2015b.
Although YOS 11, 16 (= Text A) does not show it formally, this tablet contains two different incantations, as proven through the duplicate YOS 11, 77 (= Text B) which ends with the sealing formula tu-ú-en-nu-ri (l. B15). The incantation might be addressed against scorpion (a creature which, according to CUSAS 10, 19: 4, lives in the asurrûm,).
A1: In view of A2 it is tempting to restitute [ṣe(?)]-et er-ṣe-tim ṭà-ab, but ṣītum (or ṣētum) are f. nouns, a fact which precludes ṭāb from being their predicate. The provisionary translation offered here tries to accommodate to this difficulty by splitting the line to a quasi-cleft sentence.
A3//B13–15: The duplicates differ here slightly: in text B the magician introduces himself in the 1 pr. voice.
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. 7210; view on seal.huji.ac.il.