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K 08117 (P397498)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08117 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397498 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 5 | he will go down to the open country and he will pay back reeds. |
| obverse 1 | When the mouth of a god is swollen, |
| obverse 7 | You set up libations for Ea, ama, (and) Asalluhi. |
| obverse 6 | You recite the incantation 'Su'urta' and |
| obverse 4 | (If) he goes to the city and he sees it: in the morning watch. |
| obverse 2 | to the steppe, to the garden on the bank of the river - |
| obverse 8 | Incantation: O long-lasting reed, pure reed |
| obverse 10 | You recite 3 times for the rations. |
| obverse 3 | (If) the name of ama is seen and the property is dark: |
| obverse 11 | Temple, for Kusu Ningirim,... Dingirmah |
| obverse 9 | The house, your holy rites are as clear as the Apsu. |
| obverse 12 | ... that god... |
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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