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Leichty Izbu index (P394913)
CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Namburbi, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Leichty Izbu index |
|---|---|
| ID | P394913 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Namburbi |
| 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 6 | or of a donkey, or of a dog, or of a pig, |
| obverse 2' | ... sign of a house... |
| reverse 4 | The curse (related to) the evil of a lion that enters a man's house |
| obverse 4' | The curse (related to) the evil of a lion |
| obverse 3' | The curse (related to) the evil of a dog that is buried in a man's house. |
| reverse 1 | Its ritual: a bird and a prostitute who enters a man's house |
| reverse 9 | For the evil of date palms(?) |
| reverse 5 | If he is seated in the halo of a man's house or in a house, |
| obverse 7' | The curse (related to) the evil of a bird and a nest that enters a man's house. |
| reverse 8 | Its ritual:... |
| reverse 3 | If a eagle... in the head of a man |
| obverse 6' | Its ritual: The evil of a bird and a bird that enters a man's house. |
| reverse 7 | or a person whose name has come forth |
| reverse 2 | If a pigeon has a tail on a man |
| obverse 5' | The apotropaic ritual for the evil of a bird is that enters a man's house. |
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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