SEAL no. 7189
MLC 1614 rev. (Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven)
MLC 1614 rev. (Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven)
Hallo 1999, 287
The Akkadian incantation on the reverse follows a Sumerian one (against Lamaštu). Clumsily written.
1 etellum(NIR.GÁL) tukultum(NIR) etellum(NIR.GÁL)
2 tukultum(NIR) etellum(NIR.GÁL)
3 EN.KA etellum(NIR.GÁL)
4 ABZU N[UN.KI.(GA?)]
5 ši!(Text: SI)-tas-si!(Text: ŠI)qí-⌈ib?⌉ ⌈x⌉⌈x⌉
6 mu-up-pa?!-ra-ti-[i]m?
7 dÉ-a dLÚ.ASAR.ḪI
8 li-taš-ši-ra-an-ni
9 te-e!-en-nu!-ri-e
10 [ši]-pa-at ka-ša?-ap?-[ti?]
1 Trusting, oh prince, trusting
2 Oh prince, trusting.
3 ..., trusting.
4 The Apsû, Eri[du]
5 Call out the....
6 of the scattered ones.
7 Oh Ea (and) Asarluhi,
8 May (the witch? / the evil-doer?) let me go for ever!
9 Incantation formula.
10 [In]cantation (against) a witch(?)
Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
---|---|---|---|
Apsûm (ZU.AB) | underground water (cosmic) | Deities/Divine sphere,Nature/Cosmological phenomena | rev. 4 |
Asarluḫi/Asalluḫi | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | rev. 7 |
Ea | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | rev. 7 |
Eridu | GN | GN | rev. 4 |
etellum (NIR) | lord, prince, pre-eminent | Social status/Groups/Professions | rev. 1, rev. 2 |
kaššaptum | sorceress, witch | Diseases/Demons,Social status/Groups/Professions | rev. 10 |
katarrum | fungus (a kind of) | Flora | rev. 9 |
mupparrum, f. mupparrītum | scattered one | Human activities/actions | rev. 6 |
šasûm (v.) | G to shout, call (out), read (out); Gtn iter. of G | rev. 5 | |
šiptum (ḖN; KAxUD) | incantation, spell | rev. 9 | |
tukultum (NIR.GÁL) | trust, support | Abstract concepts | rev. 1, rev. 2 |
wašārum (v.) | G to sink down; D to release, set free | rev. 8 |