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LKU 032 (P414174)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian, Uruk · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | LKU 032 |
|---|---|
| ID | P414174 |
| Museum no. | VAT 14505 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
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 4' | To (the deity) Nergal, son of (the deity) Nergal, your divine deity, |
| obverse 5' | Sin, lord, whose utterances do not approach, may he not approach him in his body |
| reverse 13' | Incantation: O karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease, karishtu-disease |
| obverse 1' | ... Sîn... seed |
| obverse 18' | Its ritual:... the sea, mua stone, (and) guungu stone(?) |
| reverse 7' | It is the wording of a cursed person. |
| reverse 6' | Ningirim spoke to me, and |
| reverse 16' | Its ritual: You pound kapaa-stone in a black jar. The 7th, a KA.KEDA... |
| obverse 9' | You put a 'foot'-mark of him on his neck and he will not return and he will not seize him. |
| obverse 16' | For the... of your face, you are not able to..., for the lands that I spoke to you. |
| obverse 8' | You set up a censer of juniper that you wrote and the reed-cutter this incantation... |
| obverse 14' | May my sons make the house tremble, the house of your sons. |
| reverse 12' | You put (them) on his neck, and no evil will approach him. |
| edge 1' | ... of white juniper |
| obverse 7' | He speaks three times and the young man who has sinned from the river |
| obverse 10' | (If) he is seized by a scorpion: death of the people; he will kill sheep; he will kill one in oil of the land; he will eat fish; he will become good... |
| reverse 1' | ... black... in his hand |
| reverse 3' | You mix with cypress oil |
| obverse 19' | ... with a... bird, a hulû-bird, a hulû-bird, a cedar tree |
| reverse 10' | wool from a sila3-plant, wool from the gate of Gula,...-plant, tarmu-plant, ikuni-plant |
| obverse 11' | If ditto (it is surrounded by) a halulu-tree, a star on the left side of the 'finger', the 'finger' (and) the 'finger' (of the lung) |
| reverse 15' | It is the wording of a 'little man' who is assiduous towards and frightened |
| obverse 2' | ... wide people. Ditto by Sin by your command... |
| obverse 6' | May he not seize him, may he not seize him. |
| edge 2' | ... that they will not set... into his mouth, and he will recover. |
| obverse 12' | Incantation: O lamassu-ti, go out from the sky and... her uprising |
| obverse 17' | Incantation: You are not mine. |
| obverse 13' | He constantly frightened, he constantly frightened, and he constantly frightened... |
| reverse 9' | hyena, lamnu-stone, nibu-stone, u-U-stone, male and female... you weave (it). |
| reverse 17' | ... stands in the hand of... |
| reverse 8' | Its ritual: uu-stone, alabaster, ubû-stone, pappardilû-stone |
| reverse 18' | ... in Scorpius; it was black, sunset to setting of Mercury: 7°... |
| reverse 4' | Incantation: O supreme, supreme, supreme,... |
| obverse 3' | And your firm promise, which cannot be changed, |
| reverse 2' | The kapaa stone is red at its feet |
| obverse 15' | You set up a stele at the mouth of your daughters. And we will not see a dog... |
| reverse 14' | ... may... be praised, may... be praised. |
| reverse 5' | (If) it is swollen, it is swollen, it is swollen, it is swollen... |
| reverse 11' | You mix Puquttu, Elkulla, (and) akiru with stone. |
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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