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4R2 29, 2 (P394820)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Asaggiga, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 4R2 29, 2 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394820 |
| 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 5' | (As for) Aur and Ninlil, the fierce one |
| obverse 10' | The evil ghost which has seized the mouth of a man |
| obverse 2 | The asakku-demon, the habbilu-demon, went to the side of a man |
| obverse 15' | ... |
| obverse 8' | The evil-doer who swore against the side of a man |
| obverse 3' | The evil fates, the true fates of that man, |
| reverse 6' | May his name (and) his seed disappear from the land. |
| obverse 6' | The evil that has seized the body of a man, |
| reverse 3' | Who listens to prayer, supplication, king of the gods, |
| reverse 1' | I wrote, collated, and checked it on tablets. |
| obverse 9' | The evil-doer, the one who smote them, |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: The Asag-demon approached his head. |
| obverse 13' | ... the evildoer, the foot of that man, |
| obverse 5' | The evil-doer approached the neck of a man |
| obverse 12' | Evil, who has seized the hand of a man, |
| obverse 7' | The evil ala demons approached that man. |
| obverse 14' | ... evil which has seized the man |
| reverse 4' | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name with my hands, |
| reverse 2' | For my reading, I established it in my palace. |
| obverse 4' | a evil curse which against a man has seized |
| obverse 11' | The evil-doer and the evil-doer take hold of that man |
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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