KAL 4, 34

SEAL no. 7482 · VAT 10797 · Incantations · To appease a deity · Assur (mod. Qalʿat Sharqat) · 6 lines · 35 words · 58 signs · 10 Sumerograms

will be discussed in Zomer (forthcoming LAOS)

Transliteration

2’ [É]N LA.RA.⌈AḪ⌉ [ḪÉ.EN. …]

3’ [K]A.KEŠDA LA.RA.AḪ [ḪÉ.EN. …]

4’ a-na-ad-di ši-iš-⌈ša⌉ ⌈x⌉ […]

5’ UR.MAḪ na-ad-ra ^gišTUK[UL …] ⌈x⌉ […]

6’ e-leq-qé li-ta₅ ina IGI ^dé-a ⌈ba⌉^?-⌈ni⌉-⌈ú⌉^?⌈a⌉-mi-l[u-ti]

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7' ana ki-mil-ti DINGIR u ^diš₈-tár D[U₈-ri]

Translation

2’ INCANTATION: Hardship, [may it …]

3’ The ‘knot’ of hardship, [may it …]

4’ I will cast silence […]

5’ The wild lion […] a weapon […]

6’ I will receive success in front Ea, the creator of mankind!

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7' To appease the wrath of a god (or) a goddess

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. 7482; view on seal.huji.ac.il.