SEAL no. 7192
Texts Hierarchy
Images
NBC 8957 obv. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
NBC 8957 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
NBC 8957 right edge (Yale Babylonian Collection)
NBC 8957 right edge (Yale Babylonian Collection)
van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 3
Copy / Photo
3 (copy)
Tablet Siglum
NBC 8957
Measurements
circumference
7.1 x 5.2 x 2.3
cm
Collection
Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
Edition
Studies
598– 599
Cat. No. 225
Cat. No. 370
Genre / Classification
Incantations, worm, toothache
Provenance
Unknown
Notes
CDLI P274694
Text
| 1 | tu-ul-tum la t[a-ka-li] |
| 2 | níg-gal-la ⌈ša ṣur⌉-[ri-im] |
| 3 | t[e]-l[i] ⌈a-na ša-di⌉-i |
| 4 | tu-ṣa-li-mi ⌈pí? NÍTA?⌉ ki SE10 |
| 5 | i-ti-li li-ṣa-li-lu-⌈ni-ik⌉-ki |
| 6 | a-di i-mi ri-š[a]-⌈tim⌉-[m]a |
| 7 | mi-tum iš-tu er-ṣ[e]-tim |
| 8 | i-ba-lu-ṭa-am-ma |
| 9 | la te-li |
| Rev. | |
| 10 | ši-ip-tum ú-ul ia-a-tum |
| 11 | ši-pa-at dEn-líl |
| 12 | ši-ip-tum ú-ul ia-a-tum |
| 13 | ši-pa-at dŠamaš(UTU) |
| 14 | dŠamaš(UTU) ši-ip-tam id-di |
| 15 | a-na-ku ri-mu |
| 16 | ka-ad-ru ša ša-d[i]-i |
| 17 | ad-⌈di⌉ š[i]-i[p]-t[am-m]a |
| 18 | a-na ra-⌈ma-ni⌉-[ia] |
Translation
1–2 Worm, you should not e[at] the sickle of obsidian!
3 You(f.) should go up into the mountains!
4 You(f.) have blackened the mouth of the man as if with excrement!
5 Lie(f.) down! May they put you(f.) to rest!
6–9 Until there will be joy and the dead man revives from the Netherworld, you shall not rise!
10–11 The incantation is not mine! It is the incantation of Enlil!
12–13 The incantation is not mine! It is the incantation of Šamaš!
15–16 I am the wild bull of the mountains
17–18 (and) I cast the incantation on my body!
Vocabulary
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| balāṭum (v.) | to live, be(come) healthy | 8 | |
| elûm (v.) | to go up, arise, (Š) bring up, bring out, enter (on a tablet) | 9 | |
| Enlil | DN | Deities/Divine sphere | 11 |
| erṣetum (KI) | earth, land, netherworld | Nature/Cosmological phenomena | 7 |
| ewûm I (v.) | G to become, turn into; Š make s.o./s.th. like | 6 | |
| itūlum, utūlum (v.) | Gt to lie down, sleep, be lying | 5 | |
| kakkum (GIŠ.TUKUL) | stick, weapon, battle | Fabricated objects | 4 |
| mītum | dead | Abstract concepts | 7 |
| nadûm III (v.) | G to throw (down), lay down, cast, put, implement, N to be thrown away, laid down, rejected; Š caus. of G | 14, 17 | |
| niggallum (NÍG/NI.GÁL.LA) | sickle | Fabricated objects | 2, 5 |
| pīdum | pardon, indulgence, ransom | Abstract concepts | 4 |
| ramānum | self | Abstract concepts,Body/Body parts,Personal prons. | 18 |
| rīmum (AM) | wild bull | Fauna (wild) | 15 |
| šadûm I (KUR; ḪUR.SAG) | mountain, open country | Nature/Cosmological phenomena | 16 |
| šalālum (v.) | to carry off, plunder | Human activities/actions | 5 |
| ṣalāmum (v.) | G to become black, dark; D turn something black, dark | 4 | |
| tûltum | worm, leech | Fauna (wild) | 1 |
Signs in text
122
Words in text
51
Sumerograms in text
5
% of Sum. in text
10
Lines in text
18
Average signs per line in text
6.78
SD of signs per line
1.56
Revision History
Wagschal, Avigail
Transliteration, indices
28/02/07
Bo, Zhang
Web-indexing
14/04/10
Meltzer, Keren
Semantics
17/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
29/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Translation, commentrary
30/11/10
Zilberg, Peter
Indexing verbal forms
04/07/14
Oh, Malli
Indexing
19/10/14
Streck, Michael P.
Images, catalogue
19/08/19
Zomer, Elyze
Corrected Transliteration, Translation, Commentary
18/08/20