SEAL no. 7156
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Images
YBC 4594 (Yale Babylonian Collection)
YBC 4594 obv. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
YBC 4594 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 69
Copy / Photo
69 (copy)
https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-BC-018659
Tablet Siglum
YBC 4594
Measurements
circumference
9.0 x 5.0 x 2.5
cm
Collection
Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
Edition
10-11
Studies
Cat. No. 258
348–349
Cat. No. 401
Genre / Classification
Incantations, maškadum (cows)
Provenance
Notes
CDLI P305829. Found a tablet with 4 incantations all concerned with agricultural matters. YOS 11, 69a and YOS 11, 69b are Sumerian.
First photo Klaus Wagensonner.
Text
Rev.
9' la-ḫa-sú-um la-aḫ-si-a-tum
10' tu-ub-la <la?>-ḫa-sú-um la-aḫ-si-a-tum
11' ar-ḫa-tu-ú-a ḫa-li-ba-tum
12' lu-uš-qà-[an?]-ni lu-uš-qú-ul TI
13' lu!-la-a-ba-[x x] [l]i?-[i]t? l[a-a]ḫ-si-a-tum
14' dNin-girimx(NIN.ḪA.TAR.A.DU) [x]-[l]i?-d[a?] x-x-a-tum
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15' ka-inim-ma ma-aš-ka-du-um
Translation
Rev.
9' The whispering, the whispering-ones(f.).
10' She has brought to me. Whispering, the whispering-ones.
11' My milking cows!
12' Let me... let me ... life!
13' ... cow(?), whispering-ones.
14' Nin-girim... cow(?), whispering-ones.
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15' Incantation against the maškadum-disease.
Vocabulary
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| arḫum II (gu4.ÁB) | cow | Fauna (domestic),Time concepts | 11' |
| balāṭum (TI) | life, vigour, good health | Abstract concepts | 12' |
| ḫa-li-ba-tum | milking (cows) | Human activities/actions | 11' |
| laḫsītum (f.?); laḫsiātum (pl.) | whispering ones(?) | Human activities/actions | 9', 10', 13' |
| laḫsûm | whispering(?) | Human activities/actions | 9' |
| maškadum | disease (kind of); illness of the joints (a kind of), arthritis? | Diseases/Demons | 15' |
| Ningirim | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 14' |
| wabālum (v.) | G to carry, bring; Š send, deliver, make bear; Št pass. of Š | 10' |
Signs in text
74
Words in text
20
Sumerograms in text
2
% of Sum. in text
10
Lines in text
7
Average signs per line in text
10.57
SD of signs per line
2.07
Revision History
Shlivinski, Rani
Transliteration (based on NW), indices
13/05/07
Bo, Zhang
Web-indexing
14/04/10
Meltzer, Keren
Semantic
20/09/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
29/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Translation, commentary, corrections (indices)
23/12/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Correction (transliteration, translation, commentary)
15/08/12
Zilberg, Peter
Indexing verbal forms
04/07/14
Streck, Michael P.
Images, catalogue
19/08/19
Zomer, Elyze
Corrections
27/10/19
Wasserman, Nathan
Corrections
19/04/20
Streck, Michael P.
Image, catalogue
15/09/20