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ASKT 09 (P393727)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ASKT 09 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393727 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse 8' | The holy mouth of Enki is a decision |
| reverse 23 | You are the one who carries evil away from the night. |
| reverse 3' | ... let me see.... |
| reverse 24 | May his lu-lu priestess, the son of his divinity, rejoice over him. |
| obverse 3' | ... pure water... he poured. |
| obverse 4 | (and) the goddess Kusu, who in the rulership was guarded |
| obverse 22' | Incantation: O Illugudim |
| reverse 12' | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| obverse 12 | Give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you! |
| obverse 6 | Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, seeks a lawsuit or litigation |
| obverse 2 | Whoever erases my inscribed name in the princely lands |
| obverse 7' | Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint, |
| reverse 6' | who is attentive to (the god) Aur and the goddess Ninlil |
| obverse 28' | May he raise the foundation of Utu's holy hand in the temple! |
| reverse 19 | You are the one who slanders them, who destroys them. |
| reverse 25 | May his limbs be reconciled with the man who engendered him. |
| reverse 9 | The qarrû-demon, the apsû-demon, who is placed in the land |
| reverse 20 | you are the one of Ninkasi. |
| obverse 11' | the sons of Apsu |
| obverse 27' | The whole of the land will become hostile. Like a flood, |
| reverse 14' | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name with my name, |
| obverse 17' | before you, Damkina |
| obverse 5 | flour of princeliness |
| reverse 11 | (If) ditto in the evening |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: flour of princeliness |
| obverse 1' | Wording for... |
| obverse 15' | before your father Ea |
| obverse 16 | May the evil-doer stand at my side. |
| obverse 13' | They poured water. They poured water. |
| reverse 7' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave great wisdom |
| reverse 4' | May the great gods |
| reverse 11' | I wrote, collated, and collated it. |
| obverse 12' | He poured water, he poured water, he poured water. |
| obverse 8 | May my lord be happy with my work! |
| obverse 7 | pure emmer |
| obverse 9' | The pure mouth of Ea he purified them |
| reverse 14 | everything, a good name, established for me |
| reverse 21 | You are the one who... ditto |
| reverse 2' | ...... Gilgame |
| obverse 13 | may it be a good fate from the brickwork of the house |
| obverse 2' | Incantation: O pure water, |
| obverse 3 | by the hand of Ezina and Kusu the prince |
| reverse 28 | like the heart of heaven : |
| reverse 16 | you are the copper of heaven |
| obverse 5' | The water from the threshing floor which is above |
| obverse 14' | before Ayazu, Enki |
| reverse 13' | Your greatness is unrivaled. |
| reverse 5' | Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria |
| obverse 10' | the children of the Abzu |
| reverse 12 | the Ekukuga temple, the shining light of the sea |
| reverse 13 | You set up in a pure house. |
| reverse 26 | like heaven |
| obverse 26' | He sat on the necks of all the lands like a lunar eclipse. |
| obverse 18' | May he be pure, may he be pure. |
| reverse 10' | The wisdom of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards the sand dunes, as many as there are |
| reverse 4 | The curse (related to) the oath of the sky, or the oath of the earth, |
| obverse 6' | who is faithfully commanded by the a-disease |
| reverse 1 | may the oath of the steppe be brought to the holy place. |
| reverse 8' | They rejoiced in the midst of a flood, the joy of the scribal art |
| obverse 16' | before your mother Damgalnuna |
| reverse 3 | Be exorcised by the oath of heaven and earth! |
| reverse 8 | the hero, child born in the Abzu, raised in the nether world |
| obverse 10 | The tappinnu-tree, the pure one, who like a censer... |
| obverse 24' | as before the oath of the enemy |
| reverse 18 | you are the one who makes good the guszkin silver |
| reverse 5 | It is the wording of a curse. |
| obverse 20' | May the evildoer stand outside |
| reverse 15' | May (the god) Aur and the goddess Mullissu overthrow him, and may his name (and) his seed disappear from the land. |
| reverse 10 | Gibil, your fire is pure |
| reverse 27 | as if it were a place of relaxation |
| reverse 30 | Incantation formula: curse. |
| reverse 29 | May the evildoer stand outside. |
| obverse 25' | The curse related to a cursed person's presence is swollen: he will recover. |
| reverse 9'a | (a kind of profession) |
| obverse 9 | flour, fine flour, cedar, aur tree |
| reverse 9' | Whoever among the kings who came before me, should know this work. |
| obverse 4' | water of the Euphrates |
| obverse 15 | May the evil tongue stand outside. |
| reverse 2 | May the curse be removed from the roof, may it be removed from the roof. |
| reverse 15 | whatever there is, you know, and |
| obverse 11 | your flour, the plan, your flour, the brickwork of the house |
| reverse 7 | Gira, the heir who is in the land |
| obverse 14 | May my life be good, may my fate be good. |
| obverse 29' | May ama, in his seat, his strength tear out, and in the house of the father who had engendered him |
| reverse 22 | You are the one of the evildoer |
| obverse 21' | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer to a 3rd time. |
| reverse 17 | You are the one who restores them to the daises and the sanctuaries of Eridu. |
| obverse 19' | May he be happy, may he be happy. |
| obverse 23' | (and) the Tigris he smote him |
| reverse 6 | Incantation: O new goddess, raised in the nether world. |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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