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CT 17, pl. 14, K 8386 (P397610)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Muššuʾu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 17, pl. 14, K 8386 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397610 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Muššuʾu |
| 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 12 | ... di'u-disease, swollen... |
| obverse 13 | asag priestess |
| reverse 1' | The second tablet: the saggigg-priests... |
| obverse 7 | the one who has no god, who goes at his side |
| obverse 9 | he covered it like a garment |
| obverse 8 | I am not my lord, the gods are distant. |
| reverse 3' | They rejoiced over you, the eyes were full of sceptres. |
| reverse 7' | For my reading, I established it in my palace. |
| obverse 10 | he smote the ground like a snare. |
| obverse 5 | the Asag demon that does not have a good reputation, a person who does not see it |
| obverse 6 | I am afraid, fearless, unfavorable. |
| reverse 6' | I wrote (and) collated (it) in tablets. |
| reverse 5' | The wisdom of Nabû, the sand dunes, as many as there are |
| reverse 2' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| reverse 4' | Whoever among the kings who preceded me has not received that work, |
| obverse 4 | A slanderer, like a slanderer, a man has sworn by the mouth of a man. |
| obverse 2 | He is the one who raises the ground like a snare of heaven. He is not negligent in the morning. |
| obverse 11 | like a sabar net |
| obverse 3 | As if (it was) a cloud rising like a cloud, a man built it |
| obverse 14 | ... the asakku-demon... |
| obverse 1 | The house of the black-headed people, like the stars of heaven, was not known in the plain |
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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