BM 115743

SEAL no. 7152

Tablet Siglum
BM 115743 (1923,0113.24)
Measurements
circumference
6.6 x 4.7
cm
Collection
British Museum, London
Edition
Wasserman, in preparation
Genre / Classification
Incantations, love?
Provenance
Notes

Ch. Walker: "Literary; Akkadian love incantations".

BM online: "Clay tablet with twelve lines of inscription on obverse side only; literary?; Old Babylonian; complete; one corner chipped".

Text

1 ḫa-an-zu-ru mu-ra-li

2 ḫa-an-zu-ru ⌈mu-ra⌉-ra-li

3 ša aš-ti i-na-ke-e-em

4 li-is-su?-úḫ?⌉ […] li [(x)]

5 ba-aš-ti a-qá-ra-an šu-mi-iḫ

6 mar-ra-ta

7 e-ri-šam mu-ur-ru-ur› ⌈mu-ra⌉-li

8 mu-ra-ra-li

9 pé-ḫi a-aḫ ap-pí li-iḫ li-iḫ-ḫi

10 pí-sa ⌈KU4pí-su GUR-ma

11 wa-a-kam li-is!(MA)-su-úḫ li-na-di-i

Translation

1–2 ḫanzuru murali, ḫanzuru murarali

3–4 Whoever is fornicating with my wife – may (s)he remove [(his)] …!

5 I am piling up my sexual dignity. Make(m.) it grow abundantly!

6–7 You(m.) are bitter! Very bitter as of scent!

7–8 murali, murarali

9 Seal off the sides of the nose! liḫ liḫḫi

10 May it (i.e. the bitterness) enter her mouth?, (then) may it go back to his mouth!?

11 May she remove the weak one?! May he be rejected!

Vocabulary
Word Translation Semantic Line
aḫum II arm, side; bank (of river) 9
akûm I weak, powerless, humble 11
appum nose, tip, crown (of tree) 9
aššatum, aštum wife 3
bāštum dignity, pride 5
erēbum (v.) (KU4) G to enter, come in; Š cause to enter, bring in; penetrate 10
erīšum scent, fragrance 7
marārum (v.) G to become bitter; D make bitter 6, 7
nadûm III (v.) G to throw down, lay down; N to be rejected; Š caus. of G 11
nasāḫum (v.) G to tear out, pull out, remove; G~D; N pass. be extracted, torn out 4, 11
niākum (v.) G to have sexual intercourse 3
peḫûm (v.) to close up, seal 9
pûm I (KA) mouth, statement, command, opening 10
qarānum (v.) to stack up, pile on 5
šamāḫum (v.) to grow, flourish; be magnificent, D make flourish, to grow, flourish 5
târum (v.) (GUR) G to turn, return, become again; D to bring, send, give, pay back 10
Signs in text
85
Words in text
31
Sumerograms in text
4
% of Sum. in text
13
Lines in text
11
Average signs per line in text
7.73
SD of signs per line
2.57
Revision History
24/10/18
Tulaikova, Yulia
Indexing
23/01/21