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BL 012 (P395447)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 012 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395447 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse col 1 3 | ... his... |
| obverse col 2 11 | to your hand of evil, to the life of his evil, |
| obverse col 1 11 | ......... |
| obverse col 1 4 | I am the one who destroys the evil ala and the reed bed, the one who dwells in the bedroom. |
| obverse col 2 2 | weavers |
| obverse col 2 15 | When they have sat down from the... gate |
| obverse col 1 14 | ... ditto |
| obverse col 2 1 | ... I shall send to you |
| obverse col 1 5 | that the evil ala-demons and the ala-demons be set upon the quay, that the man should stand by it |
| obverse col 1 9 | who does not know the evil ala and siskur prayer |
| obverse col 1 8 | ...... |
| obverse col 2 3 | chief lord of the asalluhi and abgal priests, in the midst of the midst of the sea |
| obverse col 1 7 | You are not to say... |
| obverse col 1 12 | ... An(?) |
| obverse col 1 6 | whose ala-demon, evil of the black-headed god, whose hand is grasped |
| obverse col 2 4 | king, god of heaven and earth, king of all |
| obverse col 2 10 | to give water to the man |
| obverse col 1 17 | silver |
| obverse col 2 12 | to bring out |
| obverse col 2 5 | he has given orders to him. |
| obverse col 1 15 | ... Aya(?) |
| obverse col 1 16 | to holy |
| obverse col 2 8 | ...... |
| obverse col 1 13 | ............ |
| obverse col 2 9 | the evildoer who went out from the house |
| obverse col 1 10 | flour that has no rival |
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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