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CT 17, pl. 40, K 6031 (P396324)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 17, pl. 40, K 6031 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396324 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî |
| 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 3' | Incantation: With bitumen and baked bricks |
| reverse 9' | I wrote and collated it in tablets. |
| reverse 8' | The wisdom of Nabû, the sa-antakku-demon, as much as there is |
| reverse 5' | which Nabu (and) Nusku gave wide understanding |
| reverse 0' | May the evil tongue stand outside. |
| reverse 2' | Wording of a city and of gold |
| reverse 1' | May evil demons stand in battle. |
| reverse 4' | [Tablet 7]: LUH, gate of the palace. |
| reverse 6' | (If) he sees (it), he sees (it), he sees (it), |
| reverse 10' | For my reading, I deposited my clay cone in my palace. |
| reverse 7' | Whoever among the kings who preceded me has not received that work, |
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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