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K 02165 (P394228)
CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02165 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394228 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2 7 | ...... |
| col 3 14' | Incantation: O Iri-pah, Namtar, Iri-pah, |
| col 3 15' | (A statue of) birbir priestess, birbir priestess of heaven and earth, |
| col 3 19' | You recite the incantation which is written to a man. |
| col 3 24' | ...... of the extispicy. |
| col 2 4 | ... weeping barley |
| col 3 21' | If a man's eyes become dark: sikillu-plant, fish. |
| col 2 1 | ... Atu |
| col 3 25' | ... and During the night, the star... |
| col 4 5' | seed(?) |
| col 3 16' | (If) he goes out to the west and that man is seen by ama. |
| col 3 13' | (If) he sits in front of a star: in Aries. |
| col 3 12' | You mix with bru-aromatic oil. |
| col 3 5' | You libate bread, and you libate beer. |
| col 3 18' | you put... of Ea in the fire and the reedbed. |
| col 3 17' | ... azalla-plant after it,...-plant |
| col 2 3 | ... and |
| col 2 5 | ... and |
| col 3 23' | You set up a censer of juniper |
| col 3 7' | To that man: you are to be sated. |
| col 3 10' | seeds of juniper, urnê-plant |
| col 3 20' | ... this... |
| col 3 2' | If a man... his feet are swollen: |
| col 3 3' | their hands they shall hear. |
| col 2 6 | ...... |
| col 2 8 | ... DUL |
| col 3 11' | kurkurru-plant, seeds of tamarisk, is its share. |
| col 3 9' | ...-wood, chariot,..., |
| col 3 8' | (If) in front of a star its limbs are swollen: he will die. |
| col 3 26' | ... that man will see the sun. |
| col 3 6' | (If) he sees a ghost and his body is covered with his head: he will destroy him. |
| col 3 4' | his flesh has been cut off |
| col 2 2 | ... you put... and |
| col 3 22' | Tarmu plant, foundation of a male Namtar tree |
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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