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RA 049, 036 (P395104)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RA 049, 036 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395104 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic |
| 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 1' | Do not slander me by the evil of this bird and do not slander me. |
| reverse 3' | May the king, my lord, give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you! |
| reverse 20' | he smote the scepter, but he did not smote the scepter to his house. |
| reverse 8' | ... ama, judge |
| reverse 2' | Ea, ama, and Marduk are all wronged. |
| reverse 12' | The plants of the hands of the exorcist are swollen. |
| reverse 4' | Let me sing your praises. |
| reverse 18' | At the gate of the house a decision will be made. |
| reverse 17' | at the gate of the house of the gardener a leatherworker’s leatherworker stands (this). |
| reverse 9' | Establish..., sage of the gods, Marduk! |
| reverse 6' | Reconcile your great divinity, |
| reverse 10' | It is (the case that) it is performed seven times and the mamau-priest (is) their all-knowing. |
| reverse 7' | I am Ea, my lord |
| reverse 19' | You set up a bronze parigu-garment and |
| reverse 5' | and my witnesses in the street |
| reverse 14' | That bird is placed with a man. |
| reverse 16' | He shall pay the first-fruits beer from the hand of the governor. |
| reverse 11' | He sat down on him, a censer of juniper |
| reverse 15' | At that time, in the hands of a baker, he shall receive a bread. |
| reverse 21' | ... bird... |
| reverse 13' | (If) a bird rises and goes to a 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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