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BAM 4, 385a

SEAL no. 7243 · VAT 17580 · Incantations · Evil (general) · Babylon (mod. Kasr, Amran Ibn Ali, Sahn, Ishin Aswad, Merkes) · 4 lines · 19 words · 32 signs · 12 Sumerograms

Forerunner to Ḫul.ba.z.izi no. 20 // Muššu ʾu IV/i // Sag.gig VII/i ? : ÉN ka.kib ka.kib lugal ka.kib lugal ka.na.kib Attested outside the series in: NA AMT 97/1: 4–7; BAM 3, 22: iii 22’–24’; BAM 5, 471: iii 24’–25’; BAM 5, 475: i 4'; BE 31, 58 + AMT 88/1: r. 11'; BPOA 3, pl. XIX(K 7098+): 13’–14’;   BPOA 3, pl. XIX (BM 47913): r. 3’–4’; STT 275: 24–27. 

Transliteration

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17 ÉN KA.KIB [KA.KIB LUGAL KA.KIB]

18 LUGAL KA.NA.KIB [LU]GAL tùm-ma-[ta5 ...]

19 dNIN.URTA tùm-ma-ta5 pu-[ṭur lem-nu NU TE-a TU6.ÉN]

Translation

17 INCANTATION:  (By) the star(s), [(by) the star(s), (by) the king (of/by) the star(s)]

18 (by) the king (of/by) the star(s), (by) the king you are conjured! […]

19 (by) Ninurta you are conjured! [Evil] be dispelled![Do not come closer! INCANTATION]

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. 7243; view on seal.huji.ac.il.