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K 15177 + Rm 0491 (P401215)
CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15177 + Rm 0491 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401215 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [... a₂-šu-ŋiri₃]-⸢bi in⸣-[keš₂-keš₂-re] | ... the Ašu-biri-ēbi-priests ... |
| 2' | [...] ⸢ka⸣-bi ⸢nu⸣-[bad-da] | ... its eka-e23 temple is a edda-house |
| 3' | [...] ⸢ba-an-keš₂ du₁₁-du₁₁⸣ nu-mu-un-⸢da⸣-[gi₄-gi₄] | ... did not answer the utterances of the Ebankes |
| 4' | [lu₂-u₁₈]-⸢lu⸣-bi u₈-⸢a⸣-a u₃-a a-⸢nir⸣-ra ab-⸢ŋa₂⸣-[ŋa₂] | Its ecstatic, ewe, woe, enir priestess, enters. |
| 5' | {[d}asal]-⸢lu₂⸣-ḫi igi im-[ma-an-si₃] | Asalluḫi looked at him |
| 6' | [... ku₃]-⸢ga⸣-a-ni u-me-ni-[šum₂] | ... his holy rites he set for him |
| 7' | [a₂-šu]-⸢ŋiri₃⸣-bi ba-an-du₈ ba-ni-ib₂-[du-du] | Its ašû-bīti-vessels were dug, they were piled up |
| 8' | [...] ba-an-bad ⸢du₁₁⸣-du₁₁ mu-un-ab-gi₄-[gi₄] | ... carried away, he replied to the utterance(?) |
| 9' | [...] ⸢ba⸣-an-du₈ ⸢inim⸣ mu-un-na-ni-ib₂-[du₁₁-ga] | ... the e’andu-house, he spoke to him |
| 10' | [...] su-a-ni ⸢ŋal₂⸣-la šu-ni-ta zi-[zi] | ... his body, he lifted up his hand from it |
| 11' | [... {d}en]-ki-ke₄ ḫe₂-em-ma-an-⸢bur₂⸣-[ra] | May the ... of Enki release him |
| 12' | {[d}asar-alim]-⸢nun⸣-na dumu-⸢saŋ abzu⸣-ke₄ sa₆-ga zil₂-zil₂-bi [...] | Asar-alim-nunena, the “son of the Abzu,' whose radiance is beautiful |
| 13' | [EN₂ an-ni]-⸢tum⸣ ana UGU ⸢U₂⸣ UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.RU.DA 3-šu₂ ŠID-nu-ma [...] | Incantation: “This incantation on top of the Incantation, you recite it three times and ... |
| 14' | [... DU₃]-⸢ša₂ {munus⸣}[UŠ₁₁].⸢ZU⸣ kiš-pi-ša₂ lem-⸢nu⸣-[ti] | Its ritual: a woman, its evil witchcraft |
| 15' | [...] ru-ḫe-e-ša₂ NU ⸢DU₁₀⸣.[GA.MEŠ] | ... its ruḫšu-disease cannot be undone |
| 16' | [... maš-qu]-⸢ti⸣ [...] ⸢TI-e⸣ [...] | ... mašqûtu-plant |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢NU⸣ [...] | ... the ešunu-house |
| 2' | [...] ša₂ TI-⸢e⸣ [...] | ... of Tî-ēšu |
| 3' | [u₂-ram]-⸢mi₃⸣-ik-šu₂-⸢ma⸣ [rim]-⸢ka lu⸣-ʾa-a [...] | I have sworn by the command of your great divinity. |
| 4' | [ip-šu-us]-⸢su⸣-ma I₃.GIŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ lem-nu ana ⸢ḫa⸣-[ba-li-šu₂] | he smote him, and the evil oil into his ḫābu-house |
| 5' | [u₂-ša₂]-⸢aṣ⸣-bit-su-⸢ma GIG⸣ lem-nu DAB-⸢it⸣ [...] | (If) he spits on him and he is sick with an evil illness: he will be seized |
| 6' | [ip-qid]-⸢su⸣-ma ana GIDIM BAR-⸢i mur⸣-tap-pi-di ša₂ NU TUK-u₂ [...] | he entrusted him to a ghost, and he will die of a stroke that has no remission. |
| 7' | {[d]}⸢e₂⸣-a DUMU-[šu₂] {d}AMAR.UTU [...] | Ea, his son, Marduk |
| 8' | [a-lik] {d}AMAR.UTU [i-din-šu₂]-ma maš-qu-ut-⸢ka⸣ [...] | marched to Marduk, and he gave him the mašqūt-ēkû-vessel |
| 9' | ⸢U₂⸣.MEŠ ⸢GU₇⸣ ŠEŠ₂-iš u ⸢TU₅⸣ [(x)] | ēšû-plants, equine, ṣāru-plant, and ‘sunrise to moonset’ plant |
| 10' | [i]-⸢di⸣-šum-⸢ma⸣ [ši]-⸢pat⸣-ka [...] | (Sum) The one who sees you, the one who looks at you (Akk) Your eye sees me, your eye see me |
| 11' | [tu]-ka KU₃ [ta]-šu₂-nu [...] | You are holy, you are ... |
| 12' | [ku-šu]-⸢ud⸣ {[munus]}⸢UŠ₁₁⸣.[ZU] ina [...] | Kušu-ēdu (means) female kid in |
| 13' | [kiš-pu ru-ḫu-u₂ ru-su]-⸢u₂ BAD-u₂⸣ [...] | Witchcraft, magic, sorcery |
| 14' | [... li]-⸢ṣi⸣-ma(la) ma-mitu ana [...] | ... may a curse be imposed upon ... |
| 15' | [...] ⸢li⸣-ir-tap-pi-[du ...] | ... Elī-irtappidu |
| 16' | [...] x-x [...] | |
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
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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