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SpTU 5, 242 (P348829)
CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 5, 242 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348829 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu |
| 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' | [...] ina ⸢te-ka⸣ [...] | ... in your ... |
| 2' | [pu]-⸢šur⸣ ma-⸢ma⸣-[ta ...] | From the well to the well |
| 3' | [pu]-⸢šur⸣ šu-na-⸢a⸣-[ti ...] | (Sum) I am the one who makes the heavens tremble(?) (Akk) The opening(?) of the heaven(?) |
| 4' | [pu]-⸢šur⸣ ša₂ {lu₂}UŠ₁₁.ZU.⸢MU⸣ [...] | “Pû-ēšur, the one of the incantation priest, |
| 5' | [u₂-tal]-⸢lil⸣ ina U₄.NA₂.AM₃ ina IGI {⸢d⸣}30 ...] | “At the dawn, in front of the ešû-demon |
| 6' | [...] lit-tan-bi-iṭ-⸢ma⸣ [...] | ... may he bring forth ... |
| 7' | [... ak]-⸢tab⸣-sak-ku ša₂-[ad-da-ak-ku ...] | ... I am smitten, I am terrified ... |
| 8' | [x] x-x {u₂}IN₆.UŠ₂ [...] | ... maṣhatu-plant |
| 9' | [im-ṭu]-⸢u₂⸣-a ta-ni-ḫu-[u₂-a ...] | (Sum) I am the one who is enraged, I am frightened(?) |
| 10' | [...] u MU.AN.NA ša₂ ⸢it⸣-[tal-ku ...] | ... and year: “The one who enters (the temple) ... |
| 11' | [...] u MU.AN.NA ša₂ ir-<ru>-bu-u₂-ni [...] | ... and year that he entered ... |
| 12' | [... DU₃]-⸢uš⸣ {d}e₂-a ip-šur {d}e₂-a x [...] | “..., Ea, who created Ea ..., |
| 13' | [pu]-⸢us⸣-su-<us> ki-ṣir lum-nu [...] | (As for) the one who removes it, the Kisbir canal is an evil omen |
| 14' | {[d}e₂]-⸢a⸣ ina te-e-[ka-ma] | Ea, by your command |
| 15' | {[giš]}⸢ŠINIG⸣ a-mu-ru lu-⸢u₂⸣ [...] | I saw the tamarisk, the lû-plant |
| 16' | {[u₂}IN].⸢NU.UŠ⸣ a-mu-ru lu-⸢u₂⸣ [...] | I saw the ēru-plant, the lu’eu-plant |
| 17' | {[giš}ŠA₃].⸢GIŠIMMAR⸣ ... a-mu-ru ar₂-ni ⸢šer₃⸣-[ti ...] | The ēšû-tree, the ṣumlalālu-wood, ..., the one who sees my deeds, the great ecstatic |
| 18' | [... mi]-⸢ne₂⸣-eš-tum ša₂ zu-um-ri-ia li-is-⸢suḫ⸣ [...] | ... may the heart of my body be pacified |
Sources & licences
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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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