JEOL 47, 58b
An incantation against some belly ( libbum ) disorder, probably ending with a ritual whose exact wording remains unclear.
Transliteration
Rev.
16 | li-bu-mì : li-bu-um
17 | li-bu-um : da-an
18 | li-bu-um qá-ra-ad
19 | li-bu-um a-mu-ra-ta
20 | e-na-šu : li-bu-um
21 | e-iš ta-lá-ak
22 | a-na ur-de8-tem
23 | ni-a-re-em : ŠU BA LU RU
24 | iš-té : ep-re-em
Up.Ed.
25 | i-dí-ma pu-ur-sí-DIM
26 | ša qá-té-kà e-ri-⌈a-té⌉
27 ša a-ḫe-kà e-ru-tem
Lo. Ed.
28 | li-bu-um li-tur4
29 | a-na iš-ri-šu : ší-ip-tum
30 | lá i-a-tum ⌈ší-pá-at?⌉ be-el
31 Ni-⌈ki-li?⌉-[il5?]
Translation
16 Belly, O belly!
17–18 The belly is strong, the belly is heroic,
19–20 The belly, its two eyes are dazzling.
20–23 'O belly where are you going? To smite a maiden?'
23–27 Pour ... with dust into(?) a bowl of your naked hands, of your ... arms.
28–29 May the belly return to its (original) condition.
29–31 The incantation is not mine; It is the incantation of lord <of incantations>, Ninkilil.
Commentary
22–23: This couplet may contain the answer of the belly to the question just raised, namely: 'O belly where are you going? 'To smite the maiden!'.
28–29: The phrase libbum litūr ana išrišu has no direct parallel in the corpus of incantations, but could be compared to the end of BiOr 11, pl. II (fig. 1): 7–9: pīšu litūr ana ūmim ša iwwaldu "May his (the dog's) mouth become as it was on the day he was born!".
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. 7216; view on seal.huji.ac.il.