CCT 5, 50e

SEAL no. 7217 · BM 113625 · Incantations · woman in labor · Kaniš (mod. Kültepe) · 14 lines · 28 words · 82 signs · 7 Sumerograms

Shows similarities to  kt 90/k 178: 5-14.

Transliteration

1' [i-n]a ⌈a-pí⌉-[ša]

2' [q]á-qá-ra-am ⌈| té⌉-[sú-uq (?)]

3' ⌈i⌉-na dí-im-a-té-š[a]

4' ta-sà-ra-aq

5' bētam(É-tam) | ma-na-ša-|am

6' la-áš-pu-ur

7' ma-na-ša-am

8' lu-e-e-er

9' a-na ma-ru-⌈a⌉-[at]

10' ša-⌈su⌉-ur ⌈sebe⌉(7) [0?]

11' ù sebe(7)-ma | ma-re-ki-|na

12' ta-áp-šu-kà-té-ki-na

13' [l]i-qí-a-ni-ma

14' [x ]x-x ⌈DÍ⌉ | ⌈GA⌉ [

Rest of reverse lost

Translation

1'–2' … she sweeps(?) the ground with her nose,

3'–5' with her tears she sprinkles the house.

6'–11' Whom should I send to the Seven and Seven Daughters of Šassur and whom should instruct with the orders?

11'–13' “Take your(f. pl.) spades and your baskets and …”

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. 7217; view on seal.huji.ac.il.