CUSAS 32, 25b

SEAL no. 7177

Images
  • MS 2780 (Schøyen Collection, Oslo); George 2016, 25MS 2780 (Schøyen Collection, Oslo); George 2016, 25
Copy / Photo
25
(Pl. LXXI)
Tablet Siglum
MS 2780
Measurements
circumference
6.8 x 4.9 x 1.7
cm
Collection
Schøyen Collection, Oslo
Edition
118 (II.D.14)
Studies
Genre / Classification
Incantations, snake
Provenance
Notes

A rectangular tablet with two incantations, each on a different side of the tablet. On the obverse: an incantation against an aching belly, see George 2016, 127 (II.E.6).

CDLI No. P251829

Text
rev.

15        su-pa-ni-ir mu-du-ḫi-a

16        a-ga sag ir-ši da gim? ši gìr?

17        su-pa-ni-ir mu-du-ḫu-uš

18        ag-še-er mu-du ru-pa ru-pa?   

19        KA.inim.ma muš-gar-[kam?]

20        i-na šīr(uzu!) šaḫîm(šaḫ) ta-ra-ka-as­-[]

21        ù ma-ša-ak gi-ri-ti[m]

22        ta-ra-ka-as-s[ú

Translation

15-18      Supanir mudubia . . . supanir mudubus agser

              mudu rupa rupa.

19          Incantation formula for "placing" a snake.

20          You bandage [him] with pig meat.

21-22     Or you can bandage him with the skin of a moray eel.

 

Vocabulary
Word Translation Semantic Line
girītum muraena 21
KA.INIM.MA incantation formula, incantation 19
maškum skin, hide, leather Materials 21
rakāsum (v.) G to bind 20, 22
šaḫûm (ŠAḪ) pig 20
šīrum (UZU) flesh, body; entrails; kinsman, blood relative, meat; ominous sign 20
Signs in text
61
Words in text
25
Sumerograms in text
1
% of Sum. in text
4
Lines in text
8
Average signs per line in text
7.63
SD of signs per line
1.51
Revision History
Wasserman, Nathan
Cataloguing and corrections
26/09/17
Tulaikova, Yulia
Additions to Notes
29/10/17
Tulaikova, Yulia
Cataloguing
14/11/17
Streck, Michael P.
Images, catalogue
12/12/19