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K 04833 + K 09907 (P395736)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Muššuʾu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04833 + K 09907 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395736 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Muššuʾu |
| 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 4 3 | May the fire(?) and the oxen-plant be brought to an end(?), may they be brought to an end(?) |
| obverse col 1 1' | like a bird of a roe in your greatness |
| obverse col 1 13' | (If) the flesh of a man is not swollen: the man will not be swollen. |
| obverse col 1 11' | May the oath be released, may the oath be released. |
| obverse col 1 3' | As if it had been a flood, it was a flood, like a flood. |
| obverse col 4 4 | Like a lion in the middle of a lion in his own heart, |
| obverse col 4 1 | Your sweet food he poured out. |
| obverse col 4 7 | ... |
| obverse col 1 14' | to a forest of cedar |
| obverse col 1 2' | "Let me send you to your yoke!" |
| obverse col 1 12' | May Ea, the lord of wisdom, speak to you. |
| obverse col 4 6 | Just as the stela does not..., |
| obverse col 1 6' | of Damu and Gula |
| obverse col 4 2 | Your good deeds he determined, and |
| obverse col 1 4' | like a wild bull to the heavens of Anu |
| obverse col 1 16' | I...... sweet reed |
| obverse col 1 7' | Written by Ningirim, mistress of the work |
| obverse col 1 5' | the work they did not have, the work of Ea and Asalluhi |
| obverse col 1 9' | from the work of my hand he brought out, and |
| obverse col 4 5 | You should not... the soil like a river |
| obverse col 1 8' | Incantation: "Ishtar is surrounded by a fire?" |
| obverse col 1 15' | ...-plant,...-plant, juniper |
| obverse col 1 10' | he has set up before the land. |
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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