KJB 138

Siglum: KJB 138
Transliteration: h ḏs²ry l ʾḥls¹ ʾḥlk dn s¹qm w dn ʿyt w dn bʾs¹ w ḫblt -h
Translation: O ḏs²ry [grant] ʾḥlk to ʾḥls¹ without sickness and without impotence and without distress and she has driven him insane

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: King (1990: 284–285) commented: "The text is written clockwise in a loop above KJB 137. Neither ʾḥls¹ or ʾḥlk are in Harding 1971 although the latter is quoted under ḥlk Harding (1971: 198). For other occurrences of ʾḥls¹, see Index a. ʾḥlk is the subject of the verb at the end and the name must be feminine, see the Index of names. For this type of prayer, see Ch.4.C.3. For dn, cf. Ar. dūna with the meaning ‘without’ Wright (1896-1898: 185B); s¹qm, cf. Ar. suqm, ‘sickness’; ʿyt ‘impotence’ cf. Ar. ʿayya ‘he lacked power, strength or ability’; bʾs¹, cf. Ar. buʾs and baʾs ‘distress, misfortune’ the word is attested in other contexts in Saf. (see, for example, WH 180, 895). ḫbl, cf. Ar. ḫabalahu ‘it rendered him insane’, the verb is in the third person feminine perfect and the object expressed by the pronominal suffix -h. ḏs²ry is asked to ‘grant’ a person in KJB 86 and there is another invocation to ḏs²ry in an amorous context in KJA 20".

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