SEAL no. 7170
Texts Hierarchy
Images
YBC 5620 (Yale Babylonian Collection)
YBC 5620 obv. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
YBC 5620 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 1
Copy / Photo
1 (copy)
Tablet Siglum
YBC 5620
Measurements
circumference
5.4x4.4x1.4
cm
Collection
Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
Edition
Studies
Cat. No. 223
Cat. No. 368
Genre / Classification
Incantations, scorpion
Provenance
Notes
CDLI P274692.
First photo Klaus Wagensonner.
Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 60.
Rev. uninscribed.
Text
1 pa-sa-qú-um!(Text: RU) ga-ba-ra-a[ḫ-ka]
2 sa-du-um zi-ba-ta-k[a]
3 sa-du-um qà-ra-na-k[a]
4 me-e na-di-im ba-a[m?]-ta-ka
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5 [TU6] én-é-nu-ru
6 [KA].inim.ma gír-tab-tab-ti-la-kam
(Rev. not inscribed)
Translation
1 The panic you cause is choking,
2 Your two tails – smiting,
3 Your two horns – smiting,
4 Your thorax is (shining like) water (from) a water skin.
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5 Enenuru
6 The incantation is for reviving against scorpions
Vocabulary
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| bāmtum II | ribcage, chest, thorax | Body/Body parts | 4 |
| gabaraḫḫum | rebellion, breast-beating, panic(?) | Human activities/actions | 1 |
| KA.INIM.MA | incantation formula, incantation | 6 | |
| mû I (A(.MEŠ)) | water | Food/Drink,Nature/Cosmological phenomena | 4 |
| nādum | waterskin | 4 | |
| pašāqum (v.) | G to become narrow; Š to suffer difficulties | 1 | |
| qarnum (SI) | horn | Body/Body parts | 3 |
| sâdum (v.) | to smite | 2, 3 | |
| tu6-én-é-nu-ru | spell | 5 | |
| zibbatum | tail | Body/Body parts | 2 |
| zuqiqīpum, zuqaqīpum (GÍR.TAB) | scorpion | Fauna (wild) | 6 |
Signs in text
44
Words in text
13
Sumerograms in text
3
% of Sum. in text
23
Lines in text
6
Average signs per line in text
7.33
SD of signs per line
1.51
Revision History
Wagschal, Avigail
Transliteration, indices
25/02/07
Bo, Zhang
Web-indexing
13/04/10
Meltzer, Keren
Seamntics
17/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
29/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Translation, commentary
30/11/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Corrections, Translation, commentary
12/04/18
Wasserman, Nathan
Translation: correction
18/11/18
Streck, Michael P.
Images, catalogue
19/08/19
Streck, Michael P.
Image, catalogue
15/09/20