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K 13839 (P400496)
CANONICAL; CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 13839 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400496 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL; 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 3' | Concerning the argulli field,... |
| obverse 6 | He has made everything as surpassing as it was in the past. |
| reverse 5' | Tablet of AK-zuqup-ukn, son of Marduk-umu-iqa, the scribe. |
| reverse 4' | Its ritual: You recite the inscribed object. |
| obverse 3 | let the evil tongue stand outside. |
| reverse 2' | like a single mouth |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 2 | may he make sparkle with gold. |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: May the silver be silver |
| obverse 7 | he made it shine like daylight. |
| obverse 5 | Incantation: To lift the head ditto, to lift the head ditto |
| obverse 4 | Concerning the coils of the hands... |
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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