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.