Ugaritica 5, 17h

SEAL no. 7257

Copy / Photo
Tablet Siglum
RS 17.155
Measurements
circumference
232 x 166 x 32
cm
Collection
Damascus, National Museum
Studies
29, 89 fn. 390, 91, 121, 231, 232, 242, 259, 260, 342, 400, 405
Genre / Classification
Incantations, Fever (išātu)
Text

20’ [IZI] me-ḫu-ú IZI MURÚ iṣ-bat ṭur-ra TA AN-e ur-da

21’ [i-k]úl-lagišTIR› DAGAL! GU7-la-a-ma-ba-a-rais-su-uḫ GU4 ina  [ÁB.G]U4ḫi.a

22’ ⌈is⌉-su-uḫ UDU ina TÙR  is-su-uḫ GURUŠ ina  ŠEŠ‹meš›-šú  is-s[u-uḫ  KI.SIKIL]

23’ ina tu-le-e-i-šu ta-ṣa-bat ÁII-šú tùk-tá-aš-ši Á-š[ú]

24’ am-mi-ni GU7 UZUmeš-šú am-mi-ni tùk-te-si-sí  uzuGÌR.P[AD.DUmeš-šú]

25’ e-lu-ma ḪUR.SAGmeš bé-šu-ti uk-⌈lu⌉ DIRI.MA u gišLAM.[GAL]

26’ ri-dì-ma ina gišGI GU7 gišTIR u GImeš IZI GIN7 ⌈x⌉ […]

27’ a-a  ‹i›-tur ina -in-ni-šú ÉN

Translation

20’ [Fire] of a violent storm! Fire of battle!  It grasped a rope, it descended from heaven!

21’ [It devoured] the vast […], it devoured the surrounding reed-thicket, it plucked out the ox from the herd,

22’ it plucked out the sheep from the animal stall, it plucked out the young man from its brothers, it plucked out [the young girl]

23’ from his breast.  You are seizing both his arms! You have paralyzed his arms!

24’ Why did you eat his flesh? Why did you gnaw on his bones?

25’ (So) go up into the distant mountains! Eat (its) surplus?and the terebinth!

26’ (So) go down into the reed thickets! Eat the (wood of the) forest and the reed! The išātu-fever, like […]

27’ may it not return to its nest!  INCANTATION.

 

Signs in text
129
Words in text
70
Sumerograms in text
27
% of Sum. in text
39
Lines in text
8
Average signs per line in text
16.13
SD of signs per line
3.09
Revision History
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
26/01/11
Hess, Christian W.
Cataloguing
01/01/12
Streck, Michael P.
Correction
18/04/12
Zomer, Elyze
Note/Bibliography
11/12/12
Streck, Michael P.
Catalogue
04/03/13
Zomer, Elyze
Cataloguing
28/06/17
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
28/06/17
Zomer, Elyze
Corrections, Data, Text, Translation, Notes
28/06/17
Zomer, Elyze
Studies
06/09/19