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K 19957 + Rm 2, 475 + 1879-07-08, 0064 (P404713)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Bīt mēseri, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 19957 + Rm 2, 475 + 1879-07-08, 0064 |
|---|---|
| ID | P404713 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Bīt mēseri |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 13' | a kind of profession |
| col 2' 2' | white dog, shining day |
| col 1' 19' | to Anepada, the ualla priest, |
| col 1' 9' | ... at his head, may he be a keeper. |
| col 2' 10' | ... the one who... |
| col 2' 5' | Ditto, whose appearance is sweet,... |
| col 1' 5' | their supplications, furious, frightened, frightened, |
| col 1' 4' | given strength by the evildoer, by the breast of an oath |
| col 1' 11' | Incantation: When An decrees a good fate for you |
| col 1' 15' | An, the one who gives justice to a man |
| col 1' 20' | ... ditto, who enters into the morning, |
| col 2' 8' | ... dog with a horned tail... |
| col 1' 12' | Ditto, he who hears the prayer, |
| col 1' 2' | May that god speak the prayer of that man. |
| col 2' 12' | ... labutu-disease... |
| col 1' 6' | he will give birth to a child. |
| col 1' 14' | ditto which are created in a house; |
| col 1' 21' | to bring out the udubzu priest, the man of the sky |
| col 2' 7' | ... ditto, whose skin is swollen... |
| col 2' 4' | The... dog, the one who makes the heart rejoice, |
| col 2' 9' | the fate of... |
| col 2' 6' | ... a red dog with a side on its back |
| col 2' 14' | (a kind of profession) |
| col 1' 22' | Ditto, who goes to the heavens, |
| col 1' 17' | by Enki the one who perfects heaven and earth |
| col 2' 11' | the people and |
| col 2' 1' | white dog |
| col 2' 3' | Ditto, white, bright day,... |
| col 1' 16' | Ditto, he who gives wide understanding, |
| col 1' 7' | May my lord do as he pleases! |
| col 1' 10' | You recite this incantation. |
| col 1' 8' | to stand in his prayers |
| col 1' 13' | Enmegalama, the man who built the temple |
| col 1' 1' | May Sin, the man of that man, offer a sacrifice for him |
| col 1' 18' | Ditto, that is perfect for making heaven and earth. |
| col 1' 3' | whose utterances are supreme, whose utterances are supreme, whose life is long |
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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