YOS 11, 12d

SEAL no. 7207

Images
  • YBC 4625 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)YBC 4625 rev. (Yale Babylonian Collection)
  • van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 12 rev.van Dijk/Goetze/Hussey 1985, 12 rev.
Copy / Photo
Tablet Siglum
YBC 4625
Measurements
circumference
17.2 x 7.6 x 4.0
cm
Collection
Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
Genre / Classification
Incantations
Provenance
Notes

CDLI P305848.

Coll. Farber, YOS 11, p. 62.

First section in an unidentified language followed by an Akkadian one.

Possibly a ritual in l. 43.

Text
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38 [š]u-ba-an-da-aḫ l[a?] [ba?-an?-da?]-ah ši-in-da-aḫ

39 ši-in-da-da-aḫ ši-in-da-[aḫ]

40 e-ri-PI-ni-GAR-ri ù-pa-ri-in-[x]

41 [ú?]-ba-la-am ki-ma na-ri-[im]

42 i-ka-ap-pu-ša ki-ma tâmtim(A.AB.⸢BA⸣)

43 ⸢ù ú-pi-il-li-a pa-ni-šu ip-šu-u[š]

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Translation
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38–40 (Alloglot section)

41 [It] carries (me?) away like a river.

42 [It] is abundant like the sea.

43 Verily, it(?) darkened (lit. smeared) his face (as with) charcoal.

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Vocabulary
Word Translation Semantic Line
kapāšum (v.) to be abundant 42
nārum I (ÍD) river, watercourse, canal Nature/Cosmological phenomena 41
pānum I (IGI) front, face, earlier times Abstract concepts,Body/Body parts 43
pašāšum (v.) (ŠÉŠ) G to anoint, smear; N anoint o.s. with (= acc.), be anointed 43
tiāmtum, tâmtum (A.AB.BA) sea, lake Nature/Cosmological phenomena 42
upellûm charcoal Materials 43
wabālum (v.) G to carry, bring; Š send, deliver, make bear; Št pass. of Š 41
Signs in text
66
Words in text
19
Sumerograms in text
3
% of Sum. in text
16
Lines in text
7
Average signs per line in text
9.43
SD of signs per line
4.12
Revision History
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-indexing
11/06/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Transliteration, translation
11/06/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
11/06/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
29/10/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Corrections
12/12/10
Zilberg, Peter
Indexing verbal forms
03/07/14
Streck, Michael P.
Images, catalogue
21/08/19
Wasserman, Nathan
Corrections: edition, translation, vocabulary
23/09/20