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CT 17, pl. 19-24, K 12000cc (P399572)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Muššuʾu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 17, pl. 19-24, K 12000cc |
|---|---|
| ID | P399572 |
| 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 4' | whose strength the lord of strength and strength commanded |
| obverse 3' | the youth who has a strong arm, who gives strength |
| obverse 5' | May he not give him a good shepherdship to him. |
| obverse 2' | May he be sated in the heavens and in the earth. |
| obverse 1' | Incantation: "The sajgig sajgig sajgig sajgig sajgig sajgig sajgig sajgig sajgig |
| reverse 1 | they have sworn by the life of their people. |
| reverse 4 | The goddess Itar, who has no fearsomeness, brought her out of the land no one. |
| reverse 2 | Whoever in the future, at the time of this man, |
| reverse 5 | They made the paphal service of the churning priests and the people. |
| obverse 6' | The one who has sinned against me, has not returned. |
| reverse 3 | from the abundance of Inanna’s radiance to the status of An and from the netherworld he went out. |
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- 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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