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K 09216 + K 17621 (P397974)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09216 + K 17621 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397974 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic |
| 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 col 1' 6' | And he speaks with his heart a frightened man, a frightened man, |
| reverse col 1' 1' | (If) his neck and... eats him |
| reverse col 1' 3' | (If) his hands and hands are swollen: he will die. |
| reverse col 2' 5' | May Esagil and Babylon bless you |
| reverse col 2' 7' | May the evil of the illness of my body tear out. |
| reverse col 1' 10' | The dead are seen with the dead. |
| reverse col 1' 9' | And he has sinned against him. His black-headed people are very sick. |
| reverse col 2' 4' | ... of the gods, may your lordship be supreme. |
| reverse col 2' 1' | May the heavens rejoice over you, may your earth be praised. |
| reverse col 1' 4' | his curses they shall curse; his omens they shall kill him. |
| reverse col 1' 8' | the command of his mouth has been given to her, the mother of the malt will be ill. |
| reverse col 2' 6' | I ask you, O lord of life, |
| reverse col 2' 2' | May the great gods make your heart happy. |
| reverse col 1' 7' | his heart screamed awe-inspiring radiance. |
| reverse col 1' 5' | (If) his flesh is swollen: he will stand at the side of his body. |
| reverse col 1' 2' | He strews his limbs, his limbs, his limbs, and his limbs. |
| reverse col 2' 8' | shekels of tamarisk(?) to his place may it not return(?) |
| reverse col 2' 3' | ... may they magnify your name. |
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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