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K 06343 (P396466)
CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Namburbi, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06343 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396466 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Namburbi |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 4' | The reed of Kubi has not been cut off, (but) his mother |
| 7' | May it not come out, may it not come out, may it not come out, may it not come out, may it not come out. |
| 10' | May the reed of the warrior be pure to the heavens. |
| 1' | ...... the people |
| 11' | I, let me live before you... |
| 9' | May he write in my body; he will prosper. |
| 6' | May evil, evil, evil, unfavorable,... |
| 3' | (If) the reed of a calf is not pointed towards its nest |
| 2' | (If) he is stricken with reed, he will not see his people. |
| 8' | May he cross the river. May he cross the mountain. |
| 5' | The reed of the sky will not return to its place. |
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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