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CT 17, pl. 09-11, K 3118 (P394814)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Asaggiga, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 17, pl. 09-11, K 3118 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394814 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Asaggiga |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 10 | a namtaru-priest, a sakku-priest |
| reverse 4 | May the good udug and the good lama deity be subdued. |
| obverse 17' | that man shall return. |
| reverse 7 | the stomach of the bitter, the head of the bitter |
| obverse 7' | the white kid of Ennimgirsi |
| obverse 24' | the incantation of Eridu he made manifest. |
| obverse 19' | You write this man in a sealed document. |
| obverse 4' | he... the life of his god |
| obverse 6' | I am Asalluhi |
| reverse 3 | May he be attentive. From the house may he be attentive. |
| obverse 18' | The urisha-disease of his heart is torn out. |
| reverse 2 | may he raise for you, may he bring it out from the house. |
| reverse 11 | he has chosen by heaven and earth |
| reverse 15 | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 9' | when a man sat on a garment |
| reverse 12 | Wording for the evildoer |
| obverse 10' | He should pay back the money tenfold to its owner. |
| obverse 20' | he brought out a censer and torch. |
| obverse 22' | The people poured out the flour. |
| obverse 3' | he will not be sated, he will not be sated. |
| obverse 8' | (Ditto:) May the white ones of Dumuzi take and |
| reverse 19 | Whoever among the kings who preceded me has not received that work, |
| obverse 14' | Establish that man in the hands of that man |
| obverse 23' | that man will be seized by the flour, and |
| reverse 9 | the Asag demon |
| reverse 22 | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| obverse 25' | ... evil udug, evil ala, evil scepter |
| reverse 5 | ... evil udug, evil ala, evil scepter |
| reverse 18 | They rejoiced over me. The eyes were full of scribal art. |
| obverse 2' | did not raise a claim |
| obverse 21' | the street where flour is heaped up |
| reverse 13 | The incantation, as if it were the Asag demon of Enena, raised the land. |
| reverse 1 | The Asag demon, the mighty fate of a man, is present |
| obverse 15' | the namub priesthood of Eridu he established for him. |
| obverse 16' | (As for) the interest of..., he shall remove it from my heart. Bread of my property |
| reverse 14 | On the 11th day: incantation of dispelling. |
| reverse 17 | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| obverse 26' | by Kamad, Kamad-meduru |
| reverse 6 | by Kamad, Kamad-meduru |
| obverse 12' | he removed his heart and |
| reverse 21 | I wrote, collated, and collated it in tablets. |
| obverse 1' | The udug demon sat down with the udug demon |
| obverse 11' | he made its limbs firm. |
| reverse 8 | Who revives my heart, who revives my heart, who revives my head, ditto! |
| obverse 13' | the hand of that man he established. |
| reverse 16 | who to Aur and Ninlil is faithful |
| obverse 5' | his (personal) god made him dwell. |
| reverse 20 | The wisdom of Nabu, the one who carries out all of the sand dunes |
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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