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K 15234 (P401253)
CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft; CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft > Maqlû; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15234 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401253 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft; CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft > Maqlû; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
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' | ⸢NU.MEŠ⸣-[MU ...] | My ešuma plants |
| 2' | ⸢lu⸣ ša₂ ⸢DUḪ⸣.[LAL₃ (...) ...] | elû-plant, from ēduḫ-resin |
| 3' | ⸢UR⸣.GI₇ ⸢lu⸣ [...] | “Eurgi, elû-plant |
| 4' | KU₆ lu [...] | ... fish |
| 5' | ina ID₂ ⸢lu⸣ [...] | In the river the elû-demon |
| 6' | ina SIG₄ ⸢lu⸣ [...] | In the brickwork of Elû |
| 7' | [ina] ⸢KI⸣.MAḪ ⸢ADDA⸣ [lu ...] | In the E-maḫ (temple) or the Adda-e-mukin |
| 8' | [a]-⸢na⸣ ADDA lu ⸢ip⸣-[qid ...] | May he be able to take care of the ānû-demon |
| 9' | [ina] ⸢qab⸣-ri lu iq-⸢bir ina⸣ [...] | (Sum) In the quay he smote (Akk) May he be smashed in the qabiru-vessel |
| 10' | [a]-⸢na⸣ {d}gira ⸢lu⸣ [ipqid ...] | Aya, Gira, the lord entrusted |
| 11' | [x-x] x-x-x [...] | |
| 1'' | [... {d]}⸢nuska⸣ [...] | ... Enuska ... |
| 2'' | [...] ⸢ša₂⸣ {d}UTU-ši man-[nu ...] | Who can ... the ... of Šamaš? |
| 3'' | ⸢EN₂⸣ SA.MEŠ tu-⸢kaṣ₃⸣-[ṣi-ra ...] | Incantation: “You will harness (them) to the yoke |
| 4'' | ⸢EN₂⸣ ez-ze-tu-nu šam-⸢ra⸣-[tu-nu ...] | Incantation: “They are angry, they are furious |
| 5'' | ⸢EN₂⸣ i-sa-a i-[sa-a ...] ; šur-pa GAR-[an ...] | Incantation: “Išāya, Isâ ... you set up a censer ... |
| 6'' | ⸢EN₂⸣ ma-mit [...] | Incantation: “The curse |
| 7'' | [x] x-x-ni 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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