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OrNS 24, 243 (P394415)
Ritual and liturgical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | OrNS 24, 243 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394415 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Ritual and liturgical |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [EN₂ GIDIM ša₂ KI-ia IGI.IGI]-ru lu GIDIM a-hu-u lu GIDIM ma-šu-u lu-u ⸢GIDIM mur-tap⸣-[pi-du] | Incantation: O ghost who is seen with me, be it a ghost of a brother or a relative or emāšu-disease, murtapidu-plant |
| 2' | [ša₂ pa]-⸢qi₂⸣-da la i-šu-u lu-u GIDIM ša₂ ina ar₂-ni DINGIR u še-ret LUGAL mi-⸢tu₄⸣ | Whoever seeks a lawsuit will not succeed. Either a ghost who by the command of god and the king's entourage will die |
| 3' | [lu GIDIM ša₂] ⸢ina⸣ šuk-lul-ti NAM-šu₂ mi-tu₄ ana KI.NA₂-ia NU TE-a NU DIM₄-⸢qa₂ BAD₃ lik-la-ka⸣ | May a ghost, whose name is esoteric, not come near my bed, not approach (my) city wall, may it come near to you. |
| 4' | {[giš}IG KA₂-ia] ⸢li-ne₂-ʾi GABA-ka⸣ ina qi₂-bit {d}DIŠ {d}UTU MAŠ.MAŠ DINGIR-MEŠ {d}asal-lu₂-hi NAM.MU.UN.DA.⸢AN.BUR₂.RE⸣ | By the command of Ištar, Shamash, exorcist of the gods, Asalluḫi (and) Nammunda-Eanburre |
| 5' | [ZI AN.NA ZI KI.A] ⸢PAD₃⸣.E.DE₃ AN.ZA.GAR₃ ŠI.BI₂.IN.DU₈.RU BAD-ma GUR-ma EN₂ | “If he is surrounded by a halo of lead, a Halo of earth, epaddê-plant (and) anzagar-plant, he will open and return, and then the incantation will be performed. |
| 6' | [...] ⸢SUHUŠ⸣-šu₂ IZI kab-bu tu-šam-na-šu-ma | ... its base is a large fire, you ignite it |
| 7' | [... {giš]}⸢KIŠI₁₆⸣ lu {giš}TASKARIN ša₂-nam-ma qim-mat-su-nu | “... ēšû-tree or a thorny tree is their name |
| 8' | [...] ⸢u₃⸣ UR₅.GIM DUG₄.GA | ... ešumû-plant (a kind of sedge) is good |
| 9' | [... {giš]}⸢KIŠI₁₆⸣ lu ⸢KA⸣ {giš}TUKUL KEŠDA ša₂ ⸢EDIN⸣ | “... ēkišû-tree or ekkāši’e, a weapon, the binding of the E₂-EDIN-e23 |
| 10' | [...] x la ⸢EDIN⸣ | ... not open country |
| 11' | [...] x ma NU IGI-šu₂ | ... does not see him |
| 12' | [...] x ki | ... place |
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
- 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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