BM 97331b

SEAL no. 7604 · BM 97331 · Incantations · Scorpions · Unknown · 8 lines · 42 words · 84 signs · 3 Sumerograms

Transliteration

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10	[GÍR?.TAB? i]-⌈na⌉ ap-si-i-im na-aš-pa-ar mu-tim
11	⌈ša?⌉ ^dLugal-Márad(AMAR.DA)^ki ⌈id⌉-⌈ku⌉-⌈uš?⌉-⌈šu?⌉ a-na ⌈šu?⌉-li-im
12	DUMU^! a-wi-lu-tim ta^!-ar-ṣa qà-<ar>-na-šu ki-ma a-⌈tu^?⌉-⌈di^!⌉
13	ur-⌈x⌉ ⌈x⌉ ni/ir/sa ḫi ri ta-ri zi-ba-[(as)-sú...]
14	⌈i+na⌉ ma-⌈tim?⌉ ⌈x⌉ ⌈x⌉ ⌈x⌉ ⌈ti⌉-⌈ir⌉-ḫi ma-qá-tim-⌈ma?⌉ ⌈x⌉ ⌈x⌉
15	ú-qá? i+na ⌈la?⌉ ⌈am?⌉ ⌈li?⌉-il-šu la i-la-kam
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16	⌈it⌉-⌈ti⌉ -šu
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Translation

10 [The scorpion i]n the Apsû, the messenger of death

11 which Lugal-Marad has pressed (?) to the street,

12 (to) the person (lit. “son of mankind”). Its horns are stretched out like a wild ram

13 … … [its] ta[il] is curled up […].

14 In the land … breaking the bowls of…

15 It (the scorpion) should wait in the ... of its … It should not go

16 with him (the person)!

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. 7604; view on seal.huji.ac.il.