Šaziga potency incantation fragment (K.8790)
Neo-Assyrian fragment from Nineveh in the ŠA.ZI.GA (male potency) series: plant recipes ‘if a man’s heart does not rise for his wife’, followed by an incantation.
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| Designation | K.8790 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | K.8790 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Medical > Šaziga |
| Provenience | Nineveh |
| Findspot | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
| CDLI no. | P397757 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 11 (11 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) |
|---|---|
| 1' | ab-Ninurta, wool, ghee,...-plant |
| 2' | If a man is seized by his woman and... |
| 3' | to his wife, his heart does not raise... |
| 4' | If ditto a urtu-plant and aranu-plant. |
| 5' | If ditto, the base of the nammû-plant, the arantu-plant. |
| 6' | Incantation: "Let him go and not...." |
| 7' | May he be a lion... not... |
| 8' | May the rivers... and... |
| 9' | May he..., son of NN,... |
| 10' | in the end... |
| 11' | ... a bowl... |