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K 02460 (P394448)
CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02460 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394448 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 22' | the beloved lady of the evildoer |
| 31' | He fashioned... sulphur, he fashioned anew. |
| 6' | he sacrificed |
| 8' | son(?) of his god |
| 37' | stand from the mountain |
| 25' | with his hands he received. |
| 23' | he made it grow like a royal garment in his street. |
| 16' | beetroot, beetroot |
| 19' | They are bringing his donkey stallions |
| 5' | he smote |
| 27' | the king like heaven |
| 13' | he looked at him |
| 10' | Wording of a libation plant |
| 29' | en-enuru-plant, sikillag-plant, from the mountain |
| 14' | in the wide plain |
| 1' | ... |
| 7' | he entrusted to him |
| 15' | he smote pure... |
| 34' | ... may he be |
| 3' | ...... |
| 35' | emdadaga, the evil tongue |
| 24' | by Kusu the chief temple administrator of Enlil |
| 26' | and a kingship of abundance |
| 2' | of Enlil |
| 21' | at his tugarag shrine standing |
| 18' | by Gir, son of his god |
| 20' | in his place of relaxation he is constantly rejoicing |
| 9' | ... like heaven |
| 33' | he made the pure lugal priestess dwell |
| 4' | ... |
| 17' | tirram, extra-quality |
| 28' | It is the wording of a grass |
| 11' | Incantation: O Enuru, the young woman who stands in the cattlepen |
| 32' | princely wool, |
| 30' | the sikila plant of the Esikila temple, the land of Managa |
| 12' | ... sat down(?) |
| 36' | It is the wording of a sikila plant |
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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