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BE 31, 057 (P394930)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BE 31, 057 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394930 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| 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 18' | Incantation: I did not have the incantation. |
| obverse 15' | to your righteous command he shall live. |
| obverse 4' | You set up... of red wool (and) white wool. |
| obverse 20' | Its ritual: You recite the incantation 7 times. |
| obverse 8' | ..., so-and-so, son of so-and-so, whatever evil does not approach him. |
| obverse 5' | ... of cedar you wipe clean at his side. |
| obverse 6' | You recite this... seven times over his side and he will recover. |
| obverse 11' | ... he will hear his right hand. |
| obverse 3' | ..., elkulla-plant, erkulla-plant |
| obverse 16' | Be satisfied, O so-and-so, son of so-and-so, |
| obverse 7' | ... prince Ea, Asalluhi, who dwells in... |
| obverse 12' | ... you recite... your right hand. You recite this incantation 7 times over. |
| obverse 14' | The great gods of the great heavens, whose word cannot be changed, |
| obverse 19' | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer to him. |
| obverse 2' | You recite... to his side and he will recover. |
| obverse 17' | May illness, illness, and the evil which is present in the body of so-and-so, son of so-and-so. |
| obverse 10' | ..... you recite... |
| obverse 13' | Incantation: O Marduk, pure lord, heir of Ea |
| obverse 9' | king of Akkad, king of Akkad, king of Akkad. |
| obverse 21' | And you recite this incantation over his arm and he will recover. |
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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