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AfO 14, 141 K 05106 (P395883)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Bīt mēseri, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AfO 14, 141 K 05106 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395883 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Bīt mēseri |
| 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 8 | agubbu priest |
| obverse 3 | The king who has no rival, the Urgal reeds stationed at the right side |
| reverse 1' | 14 urigallu-vessels of clay and juniper stand in front of them. |
| obverse 5 | and for the sake of the life of the slave-girl he set it up. |
| reverse 3' | In front of the 7... of the kappu-vessels that are not of Nergal, you stand at their disposal as follows. |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: O Enkumma, who is standing in the holy mound |
| obverse 9 | The life of the lord, the protection of life, which is present in the womb, |
| obverse 2 | Ditto, the exalted one, the pure one, who stands in battle |
| obverse 6 | with him a life of his who stands in his womb |
| reverse 4' | Incantation: When you raise your arms, you clothe them in a good garment. |
| obverse 7 | At the true quay of the lord, the statue of life of a man is stationed. |
| reverse 2' | Like this, in front of one uurgal-reed, (which is) surrounded by a brick |
| obverse 4 | The lord, who has no rival, ditto. |
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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