Šaziga incantations (K 3350)
Tablet from Nineveh with ŠÀ.ZI.GA incantations and rites.
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| Designation | K.3350 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | K.3350 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Medical > Šaziga |
| Provenience | Nineveh |
| Findspot | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
| CDLI no. | P237527 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 44 (44 with machine English) |
Machine draft. English generated by model atf-en-best-v2 (montycrypto/atf-to-english) (version d871547f92875415dbbc7f4a37fd65e35f8ac97d) on 2026-10-05, line by line from the ATF. Not a scholarly translation.
The transliteration is not reproduced here because the source (electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich) is not marked as republishable; read it at the source link above.
| Line | English (machine draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse | |
| 1 | ... foreign... |
| 2 | ... the lord approached |
| 3 | ... favorable |
| 4 | ... lord of reeds and fig trees |
| 5 | ...... from top to bottom |
| 6 | ... the house of E-nuri. You recite 3 times. |
| 7 | Wording for the heart of a man: to a woman. |
| 8 | ... with a censer and... |
| 9 | ... seed of a reed mat |
| 10 | You put... in your hand. |
| 11 | That female donkey... |
| 12 | Seed of a sassa plant, azulla plant |
| 13 | ... kursag plant |
| 14 | You pour...... into the midst of... |
| 15 | to the heart of a man and the heart of a man... |
| 16 | You take... sikillu-plant and... a yellow-green mash. |
| 17 | You have sat down as many as... |
| 18 | you take and you take... |
| 19 | ... and a woman... |
| 20 | If ditto: between male and female... |
| 21 | You recite this incantation over them... |
| 22 | If ditto a man's stomach... not.... |
| 23 | meat of the napat-sheep... |
| 24 | (If) it is surrounded by a lunar halo and... in its middle: |
| 25 | In the morning... |
| 26 | over the eclipsing of a bird... |
| 27 | You crush the head of the aRGAB bird |
| reverse | |
| 1 | These... |
| 2 | that I... |
| 3 | The heart of a hurru-bird is male |
| 4 | you sit in a star. |
| 5 | If ditto a mole is broken:... |
| 6 | If ditto a umdu-plant is smashed.... |
| 7 | You perform the kapatinnu-offerings of Adad... |
| 8 | You recite this incantation 3 times over and.... |
| 9 | ......... |
| 10 | The heart of his skin, his flesh and his blood... |
| 11 | These rites of |
| 12 | (If) a man is surrounded by a small halo: these are... behind.... |
| 13 | he has taken away... |
| 14 | ... may he become sick for a man. He will live, and his illness will be seen. |
| 15 | ......,...,..., brother(?) |
| 16 | ... his..., son of ZU-ISUD, exorcist. |
| 17 | ... sees... |