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K 15934 (P401680)
CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft > Maqlû, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15934 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401680 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft > Maqlû |
| 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 10' | The evil deeds that he had done against me, |
| obverse 4' | It is a tablet, it is a naziqu-demon, it is a naziqu-demon, it is a teeming flood. |
| obverse 3' | of the Qulanu River, which Nabali knows — |
| reverse 9' | I am a lion, I am a lion, I am a lion. |
| reverse 6' | "Who has sinned against me?" |
| reverse 8' | water and beer poured, |
| obverse 8' | he will measure the ox, he will measure the sheep. |
| reverse 5' | My brother sent me, my brother sent me. |
| reverse 11' | to the Dr they accepted |
| reverse 15' | the one who destroys the evildoer, the seed of the soldier and the slave woman |
| reverse 12' | The water of my life I poured in the middle. |
| obverse 5' | That of a chariot and a wagon has not gone |
| obverse 1' | [Asalluhi, the lord who wr]ote to me [against my] supplication and my supplication, |
| reverse 16' | You are the one who destroys evil. |
| obverse 2' | of the heavens, the qulanu-disease of the earth, whose fate |
| obverse 6' | May the harrnu-festival, the daughter of the great gods, stand. |
| reverse 4' | my heart with me they have set out, my army is his heart. |
| obverse 9' | May their words be uttered, and my words cannot be changed. |
| reverse 1' | My mouth has been seized, my neck has been turned back |
| obverse 7' | until I speak the word of my father-in-law and my mother |
| reverse 3' | My heart has seized my heart, my heart has seized me. |
| reverse 2' | (If) my breast (and) my fetlocks are loosened: my brickwork will be broken. |
| obverse 11' | According to the command that Asalluhi, the lord who engendered me, spoke, |
| obverse 10' | As long as I speak, their words are not visible in front of my words. |
| reverse 14' | You, Gilgame, the qamû-demon, the uur-demon and the uur-demon |
| reverse 13' | The god, the king, the nobleman and the prince will be present with me. |
| reverse 7' | bread made with sweet beer, |
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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