YOS 11, 10

SEAL no. 7080

Images
  • YBC 1970 obv. (Yale Babylonian Collection)YBC 1970 obv. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
  • YBC 1970 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)YBC 1970 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
  • van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 10van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 10
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Tablet Siglum
YBC 1970
Measurements
circumference
7.9x4.9x2.2
cm
Collection
Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
Genre / Classification
Incantations, against diseases? demons?
Provenance
Notes

CDLI P304534.

Text

0' [qitmum]

1' [š]a-ap-ta-š[u-ú]

2' [ka]-lu-ú pa-nu-šu-ú

3' [kišassu(GÚ?]-BI) mi-ra-ḫu-um pîšu(KA?-šu-ú⌉)

4' [m]i-iq-tum a-ta-al-lu-u[m?]

5' [l]i?-ib-ba-šu

6' pîšu(KA)-šu-ú mi-iq-tum

7' šu-ru-pu-um bu-da-šu

8' [u]l!?-da-šu-ú-ma bubuʾtum(BU.UL)-ma

9' [(x)] um-ma-a-šu mu-ši-tum

10' [i]š-ta-ka-a[n] i-ṣi-ri-im

11' ⌈x⌉ ma ta x [x] x ⌈li⌉-qú-um]

12' i[š?]-ta-ka-an li-qú-um ta/ša

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13'         [          ] ik-x [    ] ik [                    ] 

14'         [          ] te?-[                               ] 

15'         [         ] x [                                    ]

16'         [              ] ra x [                           ]

17'         [                     ] x [                        ]

 

 Rev.

c. 12 lines illegible.

Translation

0'–2'  [Black alum-paste/angry] are his lips, yellow paste - his face.

3'–4'  His [neck] is a little snake, his mouth is a miqtum-disease.

4'–7'  An eclipse is his heart, his mouth is a miqtum-disease, his two shoulders are (causing) frost.

8'–9'  It is the pustule who bore him, his mother, during(?) the night.

10'     He is regularly found in the field.

11'–12' …. … in(?) the palate, he is regularly found in(?) the palate.

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Ritual instructions?

Vocabulary
Word Translation Semantic Line
anta(l)lûm, ata(l)lûm eclipse Nature/Cosmological phenomena 4'
bubu'tum (BU.UL) boil, pustule Diseases/Demons 8'
būdum, pūdum shoulder Body/Body parts 7'
kalûm IV yellow mineral paste, phps. orpiment Materials [2']
kišādum (GÚ) neck, bank Body/Body parts 3'
līqum (in: līq pîm) palate Body/Body parts 11', 12'
mešēltum whetstone Fabricated objects,Materials [0']
miqtum, meqtum fall, collapse; kind of desease, epilepsy Nature/Cosmological phenomena 4', 6'
mušītum night(-time) Abstract concepts,Time concepts 9'
nirāḫum, mirāḫum snake (a kind of) Fauna (wild) 3'
pānum I (IGI) front, face, earlier times Abstract concepts,Body/Body parts 2'
pûm I (KA) mouth, statement, command, opening Body/Body parts 3', 6'
qitmum paste (black) Materials 0'
šakānum (v.) (GAR) to put, place, lay down 10', 12'
šaptum lip, rim Body/Body parts 1'
ṣērum (EDIN) back, upperside, steppe, open country, towards Abstract concepts,Body/Body parts,Locations/Buildings,Nature/Cosmological phenomena 10'
šuruppûm frost, chills, shivers Diseases/Demons 7'
ummum mother Kinship terms 9'
walādum (v.) G to give birth 8'
Signs in text
101
Words in text
41
Sumerograms in text
7
% of Sum. in text
17
Lines in text
20
Average signs per line in text
5.05
SD of signs per line
3.09
Revision History
Meltzer, Keren
Wagschal, Avigail
Transliteration (based on NW), indices
21/03/07
Wasserman, Nathan
Transliteration and indices (correction), translation
18/02/09
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
29/11/09
Bo, Zhang
Web-indexing
10/12/09
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
29/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Corrections (web-formatting)
02/12/10
Zilberg, Peter
Indexing verbal forms
03/07/14
Oh, Malli
Indexing
19/10/14
Streck, Michael P.
Images, Catalogue
12/08/19