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SpTU 4, 140 (P348734)
CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft > Ušburruda, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 4, 140 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348734 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft > Ušburruda |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | EN₂ an-nu-u₂ bi-ib-lum an-nu-[u₂ bi-ib-bu-lum] | Incantation: “This is a flood, this is an erupting flood. |
| 2 | i-ḫa-a-a-lu e-piš-tum [x-x-x-x-x] | ... the work ... |
| 3 | ša₂ ina ID₂ im-lu-ʾu [ṭīdāya] | who in the river swells, who surrounds me |
| 4 | ša₂ ina {giš}IG iš-lu-pu [x-x-x-x-x] | who ... in the door |
| 5 | ša₂ ina ḪABRUD iš-du-du [mušāṭīya] | Who has smeared my body with sulphur |
| 6 | ša₂ ina SILA iš-bu-uš [eper šēpīya] | Who has gathered my dust in the street |
| 7 | ša₂ ina qaq-qar ik-pur ⸢ru⸣-[uʾ-ti] | who in the ground has sent a message (about this) |
| 8 | ša₂ ina E₂.GAR₈ iḫ-lu-uš [bītī] | who in the wall has sinned that man |
| 9 | ša₂ ina E₂ {lu₂}AZLAG iš-šu-u₂ ṣu-bat-[MU (ša ibtuqu sissiktī)] | Who is in the house of the smith, my šubbu-disease (which) has afflicted my hem |
| 10 | ša₂ ina da-ba-bi TI-u₂ da-bab-ti [...] | (Sum) The one who speaks with a slanderer (Akk) Who in a matter of speaking ... a complaint |
| 11 | ina na-pa-ḫi ša₂ {d}UTU ša₂ e-piš-⸢MU⸣ [...] | In the nappaḫ of Šamaš, in the ērib-song of ... |
| 12 | u₂-pa-aš₂-ša₂-ru₃ ru-ḫe-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ [...] | (Sum) The one who removes a šuḫṣû-demon from his body (Akk) He removes the sceptre of his body |
| 13 | ša₂ ina ID₂ im-lu-⸢ʾu⸣ [...] | who in the river ... |
| 14 | ša₂ ina {giš}IG iš-lu-⸢pu⸣ [...] | Whom he has smashed in the door |
| 15 | ša₂ ina ḪABRUD il-du-[du ...] | Who goes around in the earth ... |
| 16 | ša₂ ina SILA iš-⸢bu⸣-[šu ...] | Whom in the street his utterance |
| 17 | ša₂ ina qaq-qar ik-[pu-ru ...] | who wrote in the ground ... |
| 18 | ša₂ ina E₂.GAR₈ iḫ-[lu-šu ...] | who in the wall has sinned ... |
| 19 | ša₂ ina E₂ {lu₂}⸢AZLAG⸣ [...] | Who in the house of the engraver |
| 20 | ša₂ ina da-ba-bi [...] | Whose speech in a lawsuit |
| 21 | {u₂}IGI-lim [...] | Imhur-līm plant |
| 22 | {u₂}GAN.⸢U₅⸣ [...] | ... ēru-plant |
| 23 | {u₂}eli-[kul-la ...] | Elkulla-plant |
| 24 | ⸢u gam⸣-lum [...] | “Enough! Enough! ... |
| 25 | KA.INIM.[MA ...] | Wording of a spell for ... |
| r | ||
| 1' | {⸢u₂⸣}[...] | “(If) he ... |
| 2' | {⸢u₂}AN⸣.[ḪUL₂.LA ...] | ēša-eḫula-plant |
| 3' | {u₂}tar-⸢muš⸣ [...] | “Tar-emuš-e23 |
| 4' | nak-kap-ti [...] | The nakkaptu-demon |
| 5' | kal SU-MU [...] | (Sum) All of my body ... (Akk) All my body |
| 6' | kal UZU.MEŠ-MU [...] | All my flesh |
| 7' | ik-ki u na-piš-ti₃ [...] | Ikku and my life |
| 8' | ša₂ e-pi-ši-ia₅ [u ēpištīya] | Whom my deeds and my sorcery |
| 9' | kiš-pi-šu₂-nu [libbalkitū-ma] | may their witchcraft turn against me and |
| 10' | ana muḫ-ḫi-šu₂-nu u [lānīšunu ...] | against them and against them |
| 11' | ip-šu₂ bar-tu₂ a-mat ḪUL-tim ⸢NU⸣ [iṭeḫḫâ lā iqarruba yâši] | (Sum) It is a storm, the word of evil will not approach (Akk) It has a wind, it does not approach me |
| 12' | ina qi₂-bit {d}e₂-a {d}UTU {d}AMAR.⸢UTU⸣ [...] | By the command of Ea, Šamaš, Marduk, |
| 13' | KA.INIM.MA UŠ₁₁.⸢BUR₂⸣.[RU.DA.KAM] | Wording for undoing witchcraft. |
| 14' | DU₃.DU₃.BI {na₄}AN.NA ... {giš}GAN.U₅ {u₂}eli-kulla {u₂}AN.ḪUL₂.LA {u₂}tar-[muš ...] | Its ritual: niphû-stone, ...-wood, ēlikulla-plant, anḫullu-plant (and) tarmuš-plant |
| 15'8 | ⸢EN₂ šur⸣-ru-ni {na₄}AN.NA ... u {na₄}ZALAG₂ TA AN-e ur-du-ni | Incantation: “It is mine, tin, ... and zenith came forth from the sky. |
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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