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Leichty Izbu Index (P394393)
CANONICAL > Catalogues; CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Namburbi, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Leichty Izbu Index |
|---|---|
| ID | P394393 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Catalogues; CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Namburbi |
| 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 23 | Incantation:... star |
| obverse 7 | Incantation: O baqba-qqqu, incantation priest of the name... |
| reverse 11' | Its ritual: evil of a bird and a bird. |
| obverse 12 | Incantation: O god, lady.... |
| obverse 3 | Incantation: ama, king of heaven and earth : (gloss: new break) |
| obverse 2 | or when he sits on his bed,...... |
| reverse 2' | Its ritual:. |
| reverse 3' | Its ritual:. |
| obverse 20 | ... son of the haruspex, his lung |
| obverse 16 | Incantation: O lion,... Enlil's word. |
| obverse 10 | (If) he sees a house: he will experience rejoicing; he will experience rejoicing. |
| obverse 19 | When a tukkannu-garment, a son of a haruspex |
| reverse 17 | For the evil of a date palm |
| reverse 15 | If there is an anomaly in a man's house, or that of... |
| obverse 17 | When the mouth of the robber |
| reverse 1' | Its ritual:... |
| obverse 14 | Its ritual: evil of a dog. Night that... upon a man. |
| reverse 5' | Its curse... |
| reverse 6' | Its curse... |
| reverse 7' | Its curse... |
| reverse 8' | Its curse... |
| obverse 21 | If a prince eats a chariot and he goes on a path |
| obverse 8 | The curse (related to) the evil of a bird's nest... to a man and his house... |
| reverse 13' | (If) there is a mole on top of a man (or): a pigeon |
| reverse 18 | To the evil of the snake of... |
| obverse 9 | Incantation: 'It is the wording of a lion, lion, and habbatu... |
| reverse 4' | Its ritual... |
| reverse 21 | When |
| reverse 20 | When... |
| reverse 10' | The curse (related to) the evil of birds and birds |
| obverse 11 | Incantation:........... |
| obverse 13 | For the preservation of the life of the people : the fate... |
| obverse 1 | For evil of a man or a woman, whether in a black or a whole day... |
| obverse 5 | The curse (related to) evil of male and female slaves... together. |
| obverse 22 | Its ritual: |
| reverse 12' | The curse (related to) the evil of a bird and a bird that is in a house |
| obverse 15 | Incantation:... reed and... : Wording |
| reverse 9' | The curse... |
| reverse 14 | Its apotropaic ritual for the evil of a lion in a... house |
| obverse 6 | Incantation: O Igum, lion, dog of Itar, |
| reverse 19 | If a woman |
| reverse 16 | Its ritual: in |
| obverse 18 | Incantation formula: mouth (gloss: break) |
| obverse 4 | 'May it be known, may it be known, may it not be known, his inscription....... |
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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