Emar 6/1, 371

1       Paralysis, paralysis, paralysi[s of the flesh, paralysis of the hands, paralysis of the legs, paralysis of the sin]ews,

2       paralysis (caused by) a snake, paralysis (caused by) a sco[rpion, [let]hal paralysis –

3       You(f.) who was created in the body, who was b[orn in his fle]sh,

4       (who has) seized his knees, wea[kened his sinews, (who has) destroyed,

5       (and) confused his flesh, (who) is causing convulsions [  (?)    ]

6       his facial features, (who has) change[d his expression, fille]d him with fear,

7       cramps (and) affliction, (who has) caused him panic (and) terror,

8       headache, reddening, (who, in sum) brought upon him paralysis of the f[lesh]:

9       Why do you lay and consume the flesh? [gna]w his bones?

10      Go out! (and with you) will go out your venom (with) which you sting like ants,

11      (with) which you tear out  [his b]ody, (with which) y]ou has changed hi[s expression],

12      (with) which you have darkened [his f]ace, (with which) bi]te like a [sna]ke,

13      (with) which you cause him to bow down and […] his […],

14      and you have darkened his face, […] days.

15      Why have you seiz[ed] the lad and the maiden, [(why) have you persuaded deceitfully the old man?]

16      (why) have you made the young one run around? (why) have you bit[ten like a snake, stu]ng like a scorpion?

17      (why) have you struck with your horns, allowed (the poison) flo[w from your tail]?

18      (why) have you removed the lad from the maiden’s lap, have removed the maiden from the lad’s lap?

19      May […] grasp you, paralysis! […]

20      May Ningirimma … you, the lor[d of incantations….] ….

21      Go ou[t p]aralysis like a wind from the anus,

22      like the…

23      like the… [go o]ut paralysi[s]

24      May… receive you … …, may the do[or] receive you!

25      …

26      [… may] Ištar [receive you] and the mountain …

27      [… may] the sulphur [receive yo]u and …

28–30'         (broken lines)

31'     … Anum

32'     like … …

33'     Do not … … Adad is his strong-one(?),

34'     May the tired one(s) cast you down, may the soothed one(s) be take you up.

35'     Incantation formula.

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36'–41'Its ritual: agate(?), ḫ.-stone, lapis lazuli, remaining of arsenic(?), š-stone, a …-stone of the mountain, m.-stone, beer-bread, malt, alabaster, soapwort(?), s.-plant, m.-stone, z.-stone, glass, black frit, “male” copper, iron, algae, (regular) sulphur, r.-sulphur, wax(?).

         1: STT 136: 2–3 reads šim-mat šīrī(UZU.MEŠ) š[im-mat] šér-a-ni šim-mat [qātē šim-ma]t GÌR_II and then follows with šim-mat MUŠ. This order seems more logical than the one found in the Emar text (- if restored correctly).

         3: STT 136: 5 reads zu-um-ri, while the Emar text zu-ri (collation?).

         6–7: STT 136: 13 reads pu-luḫ-tu₄, which strengthens Arnaud’s reading púl!-ḫa (so also CAD R, 81a, s.v. ra’ību). The sign in question, however, is ṢIR, and reading ṣer-ḫa, from ṣerḫu, “fever(ish) heat”), may also suit the context.

         7: te-ri-ta, according to CAD T 427a, is a variant of tirratu, “(an affliction)”, connected perhaps to dirratum, “lash (of a whip)”.

         7–8: These lines do not have direct correspondence in the late version.

         8: So also CAD R, 382 b), s.v. rišûtu.

         9: So also CAD R, 12b), s.v. rabāṣu.

         10: Note the sequence ta-ṣi (taṣûm, or waṣûm Gt, imp.) and i-ta-ṣi°-ú (waṣûm Gt pres.).

         16: So also CAD R, 149 5), s.v. rapādu.

         17: tu-ša-a[r!?-di ina zi-ib-ba-ti-ki]: reading suggested based on the late variant STT 136: 35 (tu-šar-di-i ina zibbatiki). For redûm-Š in the sense of “to let poison flow (from the tail of the scorpion)” see CAD R, 244 c).

         20: ^dNin-gíri-ma fits better the magical context than Arnaud’s ^dNin-gír-su!. li-ku-[na]₇-ki ? – difficult.

         21: šu-bur°-ri: with the copy, against Arnaud’s edition.

         33': The end of the line reads g/kam-me-ri-šu-ma, against Arnaud’s liš-šeb-ri-šu, which is translated “Adad lui fasse voir!”, having probably in mind some (ungrammatical) form of barûm-Š. We tentatively suggest taking g/kam-me-ri-šu-ma from the epithet gāmirum, “strong”.

         34':    an-ḫu lid[dīki] pa-aš-ḫu li-iš-ši-ki, reading with CAD P, 230a (ref. courtesy A. Wagschal).

         38': ^na4IA-GÚ-DÙ-MI-TUM remains unclear. The stone ^na4SAL.LÁL is no doubt a variant writing of ^na4SAL.LA. AHw 686b identifies this stone as muš/ltasḫip(t)u, see however CAD S 268a, s.v. sīlu which refrains from suggesting a reading (although it appears in CAD M/1, 287 s.v. muštasḫiptu. (Refs. from Borger MZL no. 883).

         41': For the designation zikaru(NITA), “male, virile”, referring to different raw materials including stones, see AHw 1526b s.v. zikaru(m) D4.

         42': Arnaud translates iš-kir-ru “cire”, having in mind iškūru, “wax”. The by-form iškīru for iškūru is not attested, as the reading kur_x for GIR. Perhaps a form of (g)išgi(r)ru, “wooden spill (for lightning fire”?