SEAL no. 7079
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Images
YBC 5619 (Yale Babylonian Collection)
YBC 5619 obv. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
YBC 5619 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 9
Copy / Photo
9 (copy)
Tablet Siglum
YBC 5619
Measurements
circumference
5.5x7.0x2.2
cm
Collection
Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
Edition
Genre / Classification
Incantations, diseases (various). samānum disease
Provenance
Notes
CDLI P306686.
First photo Klaus Wagensonner.
Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 61.
Rev. has Sum. incantation against the samānum disease (Finkel 1998, 85).
Ritual.
Text
Obv.
1 sí-ka-tum i-ša-tum mi-iq-tum bé-[nu-um]
2 šu-ru-up-pu-ú-um ù sa-ma-nu-[um]
3 ⌈KÉŠ⌉? GÌR? KÉŠ GÌR? UR KA d⌈X⌉
4 NÍG.GU7!? NU.TUK MU.GÁ MU.SA4
5 x ŠUL? dUTU
6 x id? iš? ne dEn-ki d[ ]
7 t[u6]-én-é-nu-[ru]
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8 ka-inim-ma ni-ip-šum SU!/KI! NAM x[...]x
9 ⌈sa⌉-ma-nu-um šammum(Ú) bappirum(BAPPIR) BA?
Translation
Obv.
1–2 The sikkatum-disease (pox?), fever, falling, epilepsy, shivering, and the samānum-disease,
3 Binding(?)... binding(?)...
4 He has nothing to eat, called me by name
5 ... youthful Šamaš
6 ...Enki...
7 t[u6]-én-é-nu-[ru]
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8 Incantation. tuft of wool(?)...
9 The samānum-plant, beer-bread,...
Vocabulary
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| bappirum (BAPPIR; ŠIM) | beer bread | Food/Drink | 9 |
| bennum | epilepsy | Diseases/Demons | 1 |
| Enki | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 6 |
| eṭlum (GURUŠ; ŠUL) | manly; young man | Social status/Groups/Professions | 5 |
| išātum | fire, fire (of heart), inflammation, fever | Diseases/Demons,Nature/Cosmological phenomena | 1 |
| miqtum, meqtum | fall, collapse; kind of desease, epilepsy | Nature/Cosmological phenomena | 1 |
| nipšum | tuft of wool | Materials | 8 |
| samānum šammum | samānum-plant | Flora | 9 |
| samānum, šamānum | disease of men and animals (a kind of) | Diseases/Demons,Fauna (wild) | 2, 9 |
| šammum (Ú) | grass, herb, plant | Flora | 9 |
| sikkatum II | serious illness (a kind of), pox? | Diseases/Demons | 1 |
| šuruppûm | frost, chills, shivers | Diseases/Demons | 2 |
Signs in text
73
Words in text
40
Sumerograms in text
16
% of Sum. in text
40
Lines in text
9
Average signs per line in text
8.11
SD of signs per line
2.62
Revision History
Shlivinski, Rani
Transliterartion (based on NW), indices
26/04/07
Wasserman, Nathan
Translation, commentary
25/02/09
Gabbay, Uri
Translation, commentary
25/02/09
Bo, Zhang
Web-indexing
14/04/10
Meltzer, Keren
Semantic
21/09/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
29/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Correction (web-formatting, translation, commentary)
02/12/10
Streck, Michael P.
Images, catalogue
12/08/19
Zomer, Elyze
Correction
21/09/19
Streck, Michael P.
Image, catalogue
15/09/20