SEAL no. 7109
NBC 7967 obv. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
NBC 7967 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
NBC 7967 right edge (Yale Babylonian Collection)
van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 6
CDLI P274697.
Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 61.
2 i-na mu-ḫi-im
3 iš-tu mu-ḫi-im
4 a-na pu-ti-im
5 iš-tu pu-ti-im
6 a-na ḫa-ar-ḫa-sa-ni-im
7 iš-tu ḫa-ar-ḫa-sa-ni-im
8 a-na na-ḫi-ri-im ša ap-pí-im
9 ú-ta-mi-ka dNin-kar-ra-ak
10 ti-bu-ti er-bi-im
11 lu te-te-bi-am
Rev.
beginning broken
13 [ ]
14 [ -]ri-šu
15 [ -k]a
16 [ -t]i-im
17 [ -t]i-im
19 [ ] a-pí-šu
22 a-⌈na⌉ [ru?]-ub-ṣí-ka
24 ka-kíši-re-da-kam
Obv.
1–2 I hit you (the fly?) at the cranium,
3–4 from the cranium to the forehead,
5–6 from the forehead to the ear,
7–8 from the ear to the nostril of the nose.
9 I bind you by the oath of Ninkarrak:
10–12 You must rise a locust's rise in his twinkling.
Rev.
1'–5' (too fragmentary)
6' [Ninkarr]ak
8–'10' [go back] to your dung.
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11'–12' Incantation to tie a fly.
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| appum | nose, tip, crown (of tree) | Body/Body parts | 8, 19 |
| erbûm | locust | Fauna (wild) | 10 |
| ḫarḫasannum | ear (outer) | Body/Body parts | 6, 7 |
| KA.INIM.MA | incantation formula, incantation | 23 | |
| maḫāṣum (v.) | G to beat, strike; Gt to fight with each other | 1 | |
| muḫḫum | skull, top, head | Body/Body parts | 2, 3 |
| naḫīrum | nostril | Body/Body parts | 8 |
| Ninkarrak | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 9, [18] |
| pānum I (IGI) | front, face, earlier times | Abstract concepts,Body/Body parts | |
| pūtum | forehead, brow | Body/Body parts | 4, 5 |
| rubṣum | litter, bedding, dung | [22] | |
| ṣabrum | twinkling(?) | Human activities/actions | 12 |
| tamûm II (v.) | G to swear; D swear, bind by oath | 9 | |
| tebûm (v.) | G to get up, arise, set out; Š set in motion, remove | 11 | |
| tibût erbîm | rise of a locust swarm | Fauna (wild) | 10 |