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OECT 11, 004 (P274666)

Incantation, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	OECT 11, 004
ID	P274666
Museum no.	Bod AB 217
Collection	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Incantation

Transliteration (ATF)

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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
obverse
1	u2-ug-gu-ur szi-pi-in#	uggūr (means) work
2	a-ru-uh2 la-sa3-ma-am	“The aruḫ-demon is not there.’
3	bu-bu-ta-am ma-ad	“It is a flood, it is very much.’
4	it-ni-isz# a-ka-la-am	“It is enough, I want to eat!
5	i-na as-ku#-pa-tim	with a knife
6	ir-ta-na-bi-is,	he continually seeks,
7	e-ma isz-szu-ku# me#-ra-nam i-zi-ib	Wherever he goes, he will die of thirst.
8	u2-su-uh2 sza-ar-ka#-am	he removed the šarkam
9	sza pa-ni-szu#	who before him
10	u3 bu-ul-hi-ta-am	and bribes
11	sza sza-ap-ti-szu	of his lips
12	ka-al-bu-um li-mu#-ut#	The kalbum priestess, the life
13	a#-we-lum li-ib-lu#-ut,#	May the god live!
14	szi-u2#-tum# x [...]	The šiūtu-demon
15	[...]
reverse
1	[x x] x u3 x [...]	... and ...
2	x x x [x x x] x [...]
3	in x _tu6_ x [...]	In ... in the evening, ... ...

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