Ugaritica 5, 17d // Ugaritica 5, 17*a

SEAL no. 7251 · RS 17.155 // RS 15.152 · Incantations · Dog bite · Ugarit (mod. Ras Shamrah) · 8 lines · 43 words · 90 signs · 15 Sumerograms

Parallels can be found in the OB Fs. Pope , 87: 1-11   

Transliteration

Rev.

1’ […] ⌈x⌉ ⌈x⌉

2’ […] ⌈x⌉ […] ⌈x⌉ […]

3’ [... ^d]⌈ASAL⌉.[LÚ].⌈ḪI⌉⌈DUMU^?⌉.⌈E^?⌉.⌈RI^?⌉.⌈DU^?⌉.GA DUMU.MUNUS ^da-nim

4’ [… SI.LA.A].E.LU.UL.LU.RA.DA.KE.KÉŠ.DA

5’ […] rab-ba MUŠ NIG ú-še-el-la

6’ [(ina)] ⌈DAL^?⌉.⌈BA^?⌉.⌈AN^?⌉ ⌈qu⌉-⌈ti⌉-i [ù p]a-ra-ṣi-i UR.GI₇ ‹i-na› LÚ-lì li-is-sú-uḫ

7’ ina ÚŠ^meš na-aš-ki-ša DÙ-uš NU-šú lip-ḫu-dú-ma IMIN ra-ma-ni-i

8’ UR.GI₇ ar-ra-bu BA.ÚŠ-ma ZA BA.TIL ÉN

Translation

1’ […]

2’ […]

3’ […] Asalluḫi, son of Eridu, the daughter of Anu,

4’ […] he who attaches himself to the man on the street.

5’ [On the street^?…] he makes appear the aggressive^?[…], the snake (and) the bitch!

6’ Between^? Gutium and Parašu may he (i.e. Asalluḫi^?) expel the dog from the man^?.

7’ Create from the blood of his^!(text: her) bite its statue and (corrupted)!

8’ The intruded dog will die and the man will live! 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. 7251; view on seal.huji.ac.il.