Ur III Incantations

text-numbers in this book for catalogue-numbers of the tablets

p.

text

HS __

vessel

curative substance

12

1

2438

 

oil

15-6

2

1464

s^akir (GIS^GAL*NI.GA)

oil

19

3

1540

e`n-za-a`m

hursag-plant

21-2

4

1473 + 1598

 

cypress juice

27

6

1555 + 1587

 

cream

33-4

7

1474 + 1574 + 1500

   

43

11

1600

 

oil

48

12

1526

   

55-6

15

2090

 

sap of zah.hu tree

58

16

1497

a-la’

water

66

19

2439

lim

licorice

71

21

1368a-b + 1571

bur.zi

nuluhha-plant

from 3rd dynasty at Ur

p.

praedicament

deity effecting cure

shrine

12

sag.gig (‘headache’)

Nin.girim

Eridu

15-6

mus^ (‘snake’),

gi’r (‘scorpion’)

   

19

poison from A’.sa`g

Nin.a.zu

 

21-2

childbirth

Namma

Abzu

27

Samana hound of Nin-karrak

   

33-4

loins-disease from venom of mus^.hus^.a.ni (‘snake-lion’)

Nin.a.zu

En.ne.ki

43

sa.gal (‘paralysis’) from insects

Namma

 

48

licked by me.TAR (‘lizard’) of heaven-and-earth

 

Abzu

55-6

slander inflicted by us^umgal (‘horned dragon’)

Namma

 

58

cattle-disease

Asare

E’.engur

66

constructing a figurine

Nin.s^ubur

 

71

struck by Ne-dug4

Ba’har ...

 

pp. 4-5 HS 360 – a catalogue of Ur III incantations

p.

line

HS __

4

3

1497

 

15

1556

5

18

1368a

p. 35 YBC 6707 – di`m = [g]edim = Akkadian et.immu (‘ghost)

its __

is a __

mouth

mini snake

fang

ghost which uprooteth us

tongue

mistress which prattleth

nose

ghost which ...

eye

hawk

p. 39 HS 1588 + 1596 -- sag.gi6 (‘headache’) inflicted by Nam-tar through mice

fish

left their habitat

birds

smashed into base of mountains

wild animals

suffered catalepsys

S^akan

"retired to the horizon"

Nanna

"retired to the hieght

p. 51 HS 1556 -- nimgir (‘herald’) silenced gu.di (‘lute’) and na5.gal

__ was changed by nimgir

into a __

the 7 doves

gurgling singers

water-rat

leathern purse

dormouse

bound-limbed

human tongue

mouse-hair

lion’s heart

old age

p. 60 HS 2094 – myth about tablets, composed of pretious stones [used by Pu’-ta (‘Foundling’, the name of a daimon – p. 61)]

line

translation

19

"reached for a ‘star’-tablet,

20

(made from) gis^nugal [gis^-nu11-gal (p. 59)]-stone,

21

and he was reading from it silently.

22

He read silently on a lapis lazuli tablet [about] the threshing-floor,

23

he read silently on a lapis lazuli tablet about fresh herbs".

p. 61, n. on l. 19 : "Lit. a ‘tablet of the stars of the holy heaven’ "

p. 62, n. on l. 19 : "(Nisaba) continually gets advice from a tablet of lapis lazuli. ... Nisaba consults a lapis tablet for advice about the ‘star-chart’ (mul-an) ... . The subject in our text is also consulting the star chart from a tablet made of a precious stone (gis^-nu11-gal)".

pp. 66, 68-69 ritual lists of vegetable substances etc.

p. 66

pp. 68-69

p. 68, n. 4

 

HS 2439

HS 2315

AAS no. 200 iv 5

Sumerian

dates

dates

dates

zu’.lum

apple-tree

3. apple-tree

apple-tree

has^hur

fig-bush

2. fig-bush

4. fig-bush

pe`s^

ma-nu tree

pomegranate

3. pomegranate

ba`r (DAG)

raisins

raisins

ges^tin-duru5

ges^tin-ha’d

s^ennur

s^ennur

s^ennur

s^ennur (U.KIB)

acorns

acorns

 

s^e ha.lu.u’b

TEXTE UND MATERIALIEN DER FRAU PROFESSOR HILPRECHT COLLECTION OF BABYLONIAN ANTIQUITIES IM EIGENTUM DER FRIEDRICH SCHILLER-UNIVERSITA:T JENA, Band 6 = Johannes J. A. van Dijk & Markham J. Geller : Ur III Incantations. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2003.