KBo 1, 18j

SEAL no. 7295 · VAT 7425 · Incantations · Scorpions · Hattuša (mod. Boghazköy) · 8 lines · 30 words · 74 signs · 5 Sumerograms

Incantation to "catch" a scorpion.   4-sided prism. For prisms (in school texts, school models), cf. Roth 1979; Spada 2011.

Transliteration

Side D

14’ [É?].NI.IN.NU.ÚR.RU ÁŠ.GI.GAL.LA ⸢GUB⸣.BA

15’ ^‹d›?GÌR^-qa-an SAG ù ka-bi-tù ^d‹NIN›.EDIN^!

16’ er-te ši-ik-ka-ta-am-ma

17’ ar-ku-ús pu-⸢ur⸣-ra qa-an-ni-šu a-na pa-ti-e^!(A)

18’ si-ib-ba-as-sú a-na tu-ur-ri-i

19’ ú-ul ad-di-in-šu ^dŠÚ.ḪAL ^dBÁḪAR

20’ ša GÍR^!?.TAB ṣa-ba-tim

Translation

14’ INCANTATION: He (i.e., the scorpion) who stands ready (to attack) in the great reed hut!

15’ (O) foremost Sumuqan and important Bēlet-ṣēri^!

16’ I drive in (him) a peg

17’ and I bind its purru! To open its pincers

18’ to curl its tail

19’ I do not allow it! (By) DN1 (and) DN2^!

20’ (INCANTATION) to seize a scorpion.

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. 7295; view on seal.huji.ac.il.