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K 02451 (P394443)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02451 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394443 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî |
| 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 col 2 1' | Incantation: O holy throne, Ninildu, the chief carpenter of heaven |
| obverse col 2 2' | The pure kushû-offering which ditto and Anu created |
| obverse col 1 6' | I am a pure agu-priest who is attentive to the supplication of a great divinity. |
| obverse col 2 15' | Ditto, ditto of Anu |
| reverse col 4 6' | You set up a knot for Ea, ama and Asalluhi. |
| obverse col 2 13' | In a ruu-flour, he set up a firm foundation, and |
| obverse col 1 4' | he smote him, he smote him, |
| reverse col 4 13' | From the incantation of the street that he had built |
| obverse col 2 21' | ... |
| obverse col 2 16' | nir2 stone, carnelian |
| reverse col 4 12' | You make a flour/incense-offering, make a flour/incense-offering and sit down. |
| obverse col 2 3' | who is fitting for the scribal art |
| reverse col 3 2' | may he make it shine like the earth. |
| obverse col 2 18' | If ditto, ditto, ditto,... |
| obverse col 2 19' | a throne set in place |
| obverse col 1 15' | of the quays |
| reverse col 4 10' | a ritual assemblage is placed before him. |
| obverse col 2 5' | he decreed the fates of the great gods. |
| reverse col 3 3' | may the heart of Angin be released. |
| reverse col 4 11' | You recite a censer of juniper and tamarisk in front of him. |
| obverse col 1 1' | Kusu, the chief temple administrator of Enlil, the one who provides for the pure water of the abzu |
| obverse col 2 9' | ....... ditto he seized him. |
| obverse col 1 7' | ... of the gods to be set up |
| reverse col 3 4' | I made it stand outside the mouth of the evil tongue. |
| obverse col 2 20' | Ditto: pure... |
| obverse col 1 8' | ......... the land is set |
| obverse col 2 11' | Ditto, ditto of Anu |
| reverse col 3 1' | a throne |
| reverse col 4 5' | You pour oil on the bru-vessel. |
| obverse col 2 8' | ... will be heaped up |
| reverse col 4 2' | Incantation formula:... everything... |
| obverse col 2 12' | with red gold, I have made it shine faithfully. |
| obverse col 1 13' | from the rising of the sun to the rising of the sun |
| reverse col 4 9' | When the water of lapis lazuli rises, |
| obverse col 1 10' | May his... be appeased. |
| reverse col 4 3' | Its ritual: You take water of a bginu-vessel. |
| obverse col 1 3' | (If) ditto a angamau-demon ditto, ditto in ditto, the pure water of the Apsu |
| obverse col 2 17' | ...... |
| obverse col 1 5' | One fitting for the holy crown, fitting for the namdigir priestess |
| reverse col 4 1' | let the evil tongue stand outside. |
| obverse col 1 9' | the king(?) looked faithfully at his plants |
| obverse col 2 4' | ... who is suitable for a divinity, |
| obverse col 2 6' | ........ a great aromatic substance. |
| obverse col 1 12' | may they slander him. |
| reverse col 4 7' | he will eat cedar in your hands. |
| obverse col 2 10' | the great... of heaven |
| obverse col 2 7' | of Nin-ildu |
| obverse col 1 14' | all of the people may he overthrow. |
| obverse col 1 2' | he makes perfect, he makes perfect, and makes perfect |
| obverse col 2 14' | of the goddess Ninzadim, the lamentation singer of An |
| obverse col 1 11' | from the king’s plant to Utu’a to Utu’a the reed of mankind |
| reverse col 4 8' | You recite the incantation 7 times in a libation of oil. |
| reverse col 4 4' | carnelian, lapis lazuli, silver, gold, juniper |
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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