SEAL no. 7180
Sb 12360 (Louvre)
Cavigneaux 2003, 62
Note the mistake in the accession number in the title of Cavigneaux 2003: 61. The correct number is Sb 12360 (as on p.62).
CDLI No. P414447.
1 [í]d-⌈ug⌉-lá-at! ú-li-is-sú
2 ídÙ-la-a ú-ra-ab-bi-i-šu
3 ša-pa-al šu-up-pa-a-tim na-a-di ki-i ba-aš-mi
4 qa-aq-qa-as-sú ki-i e-ṣi-it-ti-im
5 [zi]-ib-ba-ta-a-šu ki-i bu-ka-nim
6 [id]-di-iš-šum dAdad(IŠKUR) ri-gi-im-šu dNergal(GÌR.UN[U.GAL])
7 [(x)] ⌈x⌉ BÍL ša AN pí-ta-aš-šu-lam id-di-iš-š[um]
8 [ú-ta]m-mi-ka dEš4-tár ù dDumu-zi
9 [be?]-ra-a ù ṣú-up-pa-a la qè-e-re-ba-am
1 The river Tigris bore it,
2 The river Ulay raised it.
3 It is lying like a viper under the rushes.
4 Its head is like a pestle,
5 Its tail (Lit. two tails) is like a (mortar)-pounder.
6 Adad bestowed it with its scream, Nergal
7 the ... of the sky(?), bestowed it with crawling.
8 I conjure you by Ištar and Dumuzi
9 not to draw near to me (even to a distance of) one league and sixty cubits!
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adad (dIŠKUR) | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 6 |
| Anum | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 7 |
| bašmum | snake, horned viper, horned viper (Cerastes cerastes), mythical poisonous snake | Diseases/Demons,Fauna (wild) | 3 |
| bērum III (DANNA) | double hour, league | Abstract concepts | 9 |
| bukānum | pestle (wooden) | Fabricated objects | 5 |
| Dumuzi | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 8 |
| esittum | pestle | Flora | 4 |
| Idiglat | GN, Tigris | GN | 1 |
| Ištar | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 8 |
| nadānum (v.) (SUM) | G to give, bestow | 6, 7 | |
| nadûm III (v.) | G to throw down, lay down; N to be rejected; Š caus. of G | 3 | |
| Nergal | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 6 |
| pitaššulum | crawling on all fours | Qualities/Attributes | 7 |
| qaqqadum (SAG; SAG.KI) | head, capital | Body/Body parts | 4 |
| qerēbum (v.) | G to be(come) close, approach, D bring, present | 9 | |
| rigmum | voice, cry, noise | Emotions/Feelings,Human activities/actions,Verbal expressions | 6 |
| šuppān | 60 cubits | Abstract concepts | 9 |
| šuppatum | rush, sedge? | Abstract concepts | 3 |
| tamûm II (v.) | G to swear; D swear, bind by oath | 8 | |
| Ulâ | GN, river | GN | 2 |
| walādum (v.) | G to give birth | 1 ,2 | |
| zibbatum | tail | Body/Body parts | 5 |