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SEAL no. 7225 · kt 94/k 821 · Incantations · against Lamaštu · Kaniš (mod. Kültepe) · 22 lines · 37 words · 123 signs · 1 Sumerograms

 tabula ansata

Transliteration

Obverse

1              e-za-at pu-ul-ḫa-at

2              i-lá-at na-ma-ra-at

3              ba-ar-ba-ra-tum

4              ma-ra-at A-ni-im

5              i-na sà-sí-im

6              mu-ša-‹‹mu››-bu-ša

7              i-na el-pé-tim

8              ru-‹‹du››-ba-sà

9              eṭ-lá-am

 

Lower Edge

10            ta-kà-lá

11            pá-ra-am ar-ḫa-am

 

Reverse

12            ta-na-sà-ḫa-am

13            zi-ba-sú ṣa-ḫu-ru-tim

14            na-pu-ṣú-um tù-na-pí-/iṣ

15            ší-bu-tim ta-ša-/qí-a-mì

16            me-e bi-iš-ri-im

17            ší-ip-tum lá i-a-tum

18            ší-pá-at Ni-ki-li-il5

19            be-el ší-pá-tim

20            Ni-kà-ra-ak

21            ta-dí-ší-ma

22            a-na-ku al-qé-/ší

Translation

1              She is fierce! She is fearsome!   

2              She is a goddess! She is radiating!

3              She is a she-wolf!

4              Daughter of Anum!

5–6          In the grass is her dwelling,

7–8          in the alfafa-grass is her lair!

9–11        She holds back the young man.

12–13      (Of) the quick mule she tears off its tail.

13–14      She verily smites the little ones.

15–16      She gives the old ones amniotic water to drink, so they say.

17–19      The spell is not mine, it is the spell of Ninkillil, the lord of spells!

20–22      Ninkarrak casted it, I received it!

 

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. 7225; view on seal.huji.ac.il.