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K 16005 (P401738)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 16005 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401738 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu |
| 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 3' | The people were stricken by the city in fear. |
| reverse 4' | ..., temple of Nabû |
| obverse 5' | The city of the land was roaring, they were roaring on the weak side. |
| obverse 4' | They shaved the life of the people and made their bodies shaved. |
| reverse 1' | May ama, foremost of the gods, give him a favorable answer to the good deeds of his god. |
| reverse 2' | Incantation formula: curse. |
| obverse 2' | In the midst of the four quarters, the radiance of the radiance of the awe-inspiring radiance overwhelms me like a flood. |
| reverse 3' | ...... |
| reverse 5' | ... is white. |
| obverse 1' | In its four quarters, the radiance of fire was burning like fire. |
| obverse 6' | In the city and the land he shall proclaim my great name, he shall be praised. |
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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