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K 17789 (P403086)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 17789 |
|---|---|
| ID | P403086 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 10' | may he be slaughtered like a bowl of burzi-bowl. |
| 8' | The evil that is in the house where you sit, may god and man come to you. |
| 5' | to the house of the evil udug of the plain, to the house of the evil udug of the plain |
| 9' | ... the evil udug, the evil ala, the evil reed, the evil ghost, the evil reed, the evil digir, the evil makim |
| 6' | to the house of the evil udug who does not make life known |
| 11' | May he strew as if it were a strewn ditch in the midst of the flood. |
| 2' | May my scepter not change your scepter. |
| 7' | the herald of mankind |
| 3' | may he not cross over the door. |
| 1' | may he not cross the door of his door. |
| 4' | Whoever breaks the contract shall not seize me |
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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