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CT 17, pl. 25-26, K 4840 (P395741)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Saggigameš, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 17, pl. 25-26, K 4840 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395741 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Saggigameš |
| 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 | My father, the black-headed, came out from the Ekur |
| reverse 8 | My son, if you do not know, what will he do? |
| reverse 3 | to the other side he spoke to him: |
| reverse 5 | Whoever does this, he will not know what to do. |
| reverse 2 | Its father, after the Ekur had taken it away, |
| reverse 11 | May Marduk not give you anything. |
| obverse 4' | He spoke to his father Enki: |
| reverse 10 | May Asalluhi not know (what) you have to say (about it) |
| reverse 4 | He does not know what he has to say, what he has to say? |
| obverse 2' | Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it? |
| reverse 9 | "Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it? |
| obverse 5' | to his father Ea to the house entered, and he will recover. |
| reverse 6 | Enki answered his son Asalluhi |
| obverse 3' | he looked at Asalluhi |
| obverse 1' | ... |
| reverse 7 | Ea, his son, Marduk, has paid. |
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- 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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