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K 16687 (P402157)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Udugḫul, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 16687 |
|---|---|
| ID | P402157 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Udugḫul |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 0 | by Enlil, the youth Suen, his supplication |
| 4' | (If) the lord goes to his vizier Nusku: |
| 6' | the vizier Nusku, the word to the Apsu the god |
| 3' | he spoke to the lord, his minister, Nuska |
| 8' | News of my illness: the moon which is dark in the sky will be scattered. |
| 0' | Ditto, who makes the moon dwell in darkness |
| 5' | to my vizier Nuska, my east side, to the abzu bring. |
| 7' | The protective spirit of my son, Suen, is bitter in heaven |
| 2' | He saw it in the sky and |
| 1' | when he had looked at the heavens |
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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