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K 05801 (P396176)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05801 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396176 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 4' | pure water |
| col 2' 6' | pure water |
| col 2' 2' | pure water |
| col 2' 3' | pure water |
| col 2' 5' | pure water |
| reverse col 3 1' | ... the water of the pits... |
| reverse col 3 12' | May your dream be exalted. |
| reverse col 3 10' | May your dream be exalted. |
| reverse col 3 2' | he brought a rejoicing rejoicing for him and |
| reverse col 3 11' | (Property) of Ea, lord of Eridu |
| reverse col 3 4' | May the evildoer take hold of it, and may he stand with one another. |
| reverse col 3 7' | Be exorcised in heaven, be exorcised in earth! |
| reverse col 3 8' | Incantation: O incantation, rejoicing. |
| reverse col 3 6' | May they not become hostile to him in his head. |
| reverse col 3 9' | May your hand be exalted before Asalluhi, the lord of the incantation. |
| reverse col 3 5' | May the udug demons and lammasig demons stand at his head. |
| col 2' 7' | pure water |
| col 1' 1' | ... |
| col 2' 1' | Incantation... |
| reverse col 3 3' | May he make the evil bailiff come out from it, may he make it stand outside of it. |
| col 1' 2' | ...-tu |
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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