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SEAL no. 7296 · VAT 7425 · Incantations · Scorpions · Hattuša (mod. Boghazköy) · 4 lines · 16 words · 31 signs · 1 Sumerograms

 Incantation to "release" a scorpion

Transliteration

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Side D
21’	aṣ-bat-ka ki-ma šar-ri-qí
22’	a-na ba-ab šar-ri-qí ^dŠÚ.ḪAL ^dBÁḪAR
23’	an-nu-tu₄ ša pa-ša-ar ⸢GÍR^?⸣.TAB

Translation

21’ I seize you like a thief!

22’ In the gate of thieves! (By) DN1 (and) DN2!

23’ This (incantation) is to expel 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. 7296; view on seal.huji.ac.il.