SEAL no. 7182
Texts Hierarchy
Images
VAT 8363 obv. (Vorderasiatisches Museum)
VAT 8363 rev. (Vorderasiatisches Museum)
Van Dijk 1971, 4
Copy / Photo
4 (copy)
Tablet Siglum
VAT 8363
Measurements
circumference
4.0x6.0x1.5
cm
Collection
Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
Edition
540-541
Studies
Genre / Classification
Incantations, snake
Provenance
Notes
Rev. uninscribed. CDLI P343025. Collated (NW) 2/2/2011.
Text
Obv.
1 [u]l!-lu-úḫ ki-ma gi5-ṣí-i-im
2 [w]a-ru-uq ki-ma dTišpak
3 a-pa-šu {šu} mu-tum pi-šu na-ab-lum
4 li-ša-na-šu bi-ir-bi-ir-ru-um
5 bi-ir-bi-ir-ru-šu li-a-wu-ti-a-am
6 TU6 en.é.nu-ru
7 KA.inim.ma muš-ti-l[a-kam]
(Rev. uninscribed)
Translation
1 Tufted like a thorn,
2 Green like Tišpak.
3 Its nose is death, its mouth is a flash,
4 Its double-tongue a flame.
5 Its radiance is...
6 Incantation formula.
7 Spell (to revive) from a snake.
Vocabulary
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| appum | nose, tip, crown (of tree) | Body/Body parts | 3 |
| birbirrū | radiance, sparkle, flash | Nature/Cosmological phenomena | 4, 5 |
| giṣṣum | thorn(-bush) | Flora | 1 |
| lišānum | tongue (of flame), tongue, language | Body/Body parts | 4 |
| li'atum | saliva | Body/Body parts | 5 |
| mūtum | death | Abstract concepts,Diseases/Demons,Human activities/actions | 3 |
| nablum | flash of fire, flame, fire-arrow | Nature/Cosmological phenomena | 3 |
| pûm I (KA) | mouth, statement, command, opening | Body/Body parts | 3 |
| t/dium? | mng. unknown | ? | 5 |
| Tišpak | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 2 |
| warqum, erqum | yellow, green | Qualities/Attributes | 2 |
Signs in text
61
Words in text
20
Sumerograms in text
2
% of Sum. in text
10
Lines in text
7
Average signs per line in text
8.71
SD of signs per line
2.50
Revision History
Wagschal, Avigail
Transliteration, indices
19/06/07
Bo, Zhang
Web-indexing
09/05/10
Meltzer, Keren
Semantic
29/09/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
25/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Translation, commentary
25/10/10
Oh, Malli
Indexing
19/10/14
Streck, Michael P.
Image, catalogue
12/08/19
Streck, Michael P.
Images
17/08/20