YOS 11, 9a

SEAL no. 7079

Images
  • YBC 5619 (Yale Babylonian Collection)YBC 5619 (Yale Babylonian Collection)
  • YBC 5619 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)YBC 5619 obv. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
  • YBC 5619 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)YBC 5619 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
  • van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 9van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 9
Copy / Photo
Tablet Siglum
YBC 5619
Measurements
circumference
5.5x7.0x2.2
cm
Collection
Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
Genre / Classification
Incantations, diseases (various). samānum disease
Provenance
Notes

CDLI P306686.

First photo Klaus Wagensonner.

Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 61.

Rev. has  Sum. incantation against the samānum disease (Finkel 1998, 85).
Ritual.
Text
Obv.

1 sí-ka-tum i-ša-tum mi-iq-tum bé-[nu-um]

2 šu-ru-up-pu-ú-um ù sa-ma-nu-[um]

3 ⌈KÉŠ⌉? GÌR? KÉŠ GÌR? UR KA d⌈X⌉

4 NÍG.GU7!? NU.TUK MU.GÁ MU.SA4

5 x ŠUL? dUTU

6 x id? iš? ne dEn-ki d[     ]

7 t[u6]-én-é-nu-[ru]
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8 ka-inim-ma ni-ip-šum SU!/KI! NAM x[...]x

9 ⌈sa-ma-nu-um šammum(Ú) bappirum(BAPPIR) BA?   

Translation
Obv.

1–2     The sikkatum-disease (pox?), fever, falling, epilepsy, shivering, and the samānum-disease,

3         Binding(?)... binding(?)...

4         He has nothing to eat, called me by name

5         ... youthful Šamaš

6         ...Enki...

7         t[u6]-én-é-nu-[ru]

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8          Incantation. tuft of wool(?)...

9         The samānum-plant, beer-bread,... 

Vocabulary
Word Translation Semantic Line
bappirum (BAPPIR; ŠIM) beer bread Food/Drink 9
bennum epilepsy Diseases/Demons 1
Enki DN Deities/Divine sphere 6
eṭlum (GURUŠ; ŠUL) manly; young man Social status/Groups/Professions 5
išātum fire, fire (of heart), inflammation, fever Diseases/Demons,Nature/Cosmological phenomena 1
miqtum, meqtum fall, collapse; kind of desease, epilepsy Nature/Cosmological phenomena 1
nipšum tuft of wool Materials 8
samānum šammum samānum-plant Flora 9
samānum, šamānum disease of men and animals (a kind of) Diseases/Demons,Fauna (wild) 2, 9
šammum (Ú) grass, herb, plant Flora 9
sikkatum II serious illness (a kind of), pox? Diseases/Demons 1
šuruppûm frost, chills, shivers Diseases/Demons 2
Signs in text
73
Words in text
40
Sumerograms in text
16
% of Sum. in text
40
Lines in text
9
Average signs per line in text
8.11
SD of signs per line
2.62
Revision History
Shlivinski, Rani
Transliterartion (based on NW), indices
26/04/07
Wasserman, Nathan
Translation, commentary
25/02/09
Gabbay, Uri
Translation, commentary
25/02/09
Bo, Zhang
Web-indexing
14/04/10
Meltzer, Keren
Semantic
21/09/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
29/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Correction (web-formatting, translation, commentary)
02/12/10
Streck, Michael P.
Images, catalogue
12/08/19
Zomer, Elyze
Correction
21/09/19
Streck, Michael P.
Image, catalogue
15/09/20