SEAL no. 7227
Texts Hierarchy
Copy / Photo
525
Tablet Siglum
CUNES 52-15-029
Measurements
circumference
48 x 72
cm
Collection
The Cornell University Collection, Ithaca, New York
Edition
524f.
Studies
6, 16, 30, 31, 32, 33, 46, 79, 99, 118, 145f., 232, 354f.
Genre / Classification
Incantations, baby
Provenance
Notes
First Millennium duplicates // LKA 9: r. 16’–21’
CDLI No. P326684
Text
Obv.
- ÉN.É.NU.[RU]
- a-ši-ib ek-le-ti bi-nu-ut a-wi-l[u-ti]
- am-mi-ni!(IR) la «ta» tab-⌈ki⌉ ⌈i⌉-na lìb-bi um-m[i-ka]
- aš-šu tu-ṣa-am-ma-a ta-mu-r[u]
- [š]a-ru-ru dUTU-š[i]
- tu-uš-tab-ki ta-ra-ti-ka
- tu-uš-ta-dir mu-še-ni-qé-ti-ka
- i-na i-in a-bi-ka ù um-mi-ka
- di-ma-ta ta-aš-tak-⌈na⌉
- [k]i-ma né-ḫu-ú-ti me-e bu-ú-ri
- ⌈ki⌉-ma ṣal-la-li-i im-⌈mi⌉-ir ṣa-bi-⌈tim⌉
- ⌈ki⌉-⌈ma⌉ a-⌈lik⌉ ur-ki al-pi ṭa-ri-du-ti
- li-i[m]-taq-qú-ta-ak-ku ku-ú-rum
- ÉN ul iu-ut-tu
- ⌈ÉN⌉ dé-⌈a⌉ ù dASAL.LÚ.ḪI
- ⌈ÉN⌉ dNIN.GÌRIM EN ši-p[a-ti]
- dgu-la id-di-⌈ma⌉ a-na-ku aš-ši TU6.É[N]
- KA.INIM.MA LÚ.TUR ḪUN.GÁ.KAM
(ritual agenda)
Translation
- INCANTATION:
- (O) one who dwells in darkness, creation of mankind!
- Why did you not cry in the womb of your mother ?
- (Is it) because you came out and saw
- the rays of sunlight!
- You made your nurses cry!
- You frightened your wet nurses!
- In the eye(s) of your father and mother
- you put tears!
- Like the peaceful waters in a well,
- Like a sleepy buck? born of a gazelle,
- Like the ox-driver, the driven cattle
- May a daze fall over you!
- The incantation is not mine,
- It is the incantation of Ea and Asalluḫi,
- It is the incantation of Ningirim, mistress of spells!
- Gula casted it (i.e the incantation), I repeated it! INCANTATION
- INCANTATION to appease a baby
Signs in text
168
Words in text
67
Sumerograms in text
12
% of Sum. in text
18
Lines in text
19
Average signs per line in text
8.84
SD of signs per line
3.45
Revision History
Zomer, Elyze
Catalogue, Data, Transliteration, Translation, Notes
26/06/17
Zomer, Elyze
Cataloguing
28/06/17
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
28/06/17
Tulaikova, Yulia
Additions to Notes
29/10/17