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BA 05, 700 K 05930 (P396268)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Bīt mēseri, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BA 05, 700 K 05930 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396268 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 8' | ... I did... |
| obverse 5' | 2 steles of... of..., |
| reverse 7' | ... as much as there is |
| obverse 2' | ... I set up in our place. |
| obverse 11' | lady of the great gods |
| reverse 2' | ... of the land of Anar |
| reverse 4' | ... he heaped up. |
| obverse 10' | who has no rival |
| obverse 1' | It is the place of rejoicing |
| obverse 3' | whose baked bricks are perfected by the evil demons |
| obverse 7' | I sat down on the right and left. |
| obverse 8' | your standing |
| obverse 12' | stationed |
| reverse 10' | ... king of the gods, Ashur. |
| reverse 5' | ... scribal art. |
| reverse 6' | ... that work he did not know. |
| obverse 4' | he set up a standing-place for you |
| obverse 6' | ... a perfect scepter, a evil evil, at the beginning of the night. |
| obverse 13' | ... I sat down. |
| obverse 9' | ... I sat down. |
| reverse 3' | ... you sing... |
| reverse 9' | ... of my palace he established. |
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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