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Meier Maqlu 03 BM 030426 (P421795)
Incantation, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Meier Maqlu 03 BM 030426 |
|---|---|
| ID | P421795 |
| Museum no. | BM 030426 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | [... lik-šu-ud]-⸢ki⸣ | ... may he go up to Egibi |
| 2' | [... li-duk]-⸢ki⸣ | ... of Liduk-eṭir |
| 3' | [... liq-mi]-ki | ... may they entrust to you. |
| 4' | [... ḫa]-⸢bil⸣-ki | ... your ḫa’ebil prayer |
| 5' | [... li-iḫ-mu]-⸢uṭ⸣ EN₂ | May [. . ] be calm. Incantation: |
| 6' | [...] ⸢AN-e⸣ | ... the heavens |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | [kat₃]-⸢man-ni⸣ [...] | ... Kat-emanni-e23 |
| 2' | {[munus]}⸢UŠ₁₁⸣.ZU ⸢su⸣-[ta-ti ...] | “If a woman gives birth to a esûtatu-disease |
| 3' | [e]-⸢le-ni-tu⸣ [e]-la-ma-⸢ta⸣ [...] | Elenitu, Elama-eta |
| 4' | {d}gira₂ tap-⸢pe-e {d⸣}[UTU ...] | Gira, the messenger of Šamaš |
| 5' | ⸢ki-ma⸣ KUR-u₂ [...] ⸢PIŠ₁₀.{d⸣}[ID₂ ...] | (In) Egimae, the mountain ... (in) Epiš-Eṭir |
| 6' | ⸢kiš-pu-ša₂⸣ ru-ḫu-[ša₂] ⸢ru-su⸣-[ša₂ ...] | “Ekišpû-plant, ruḫbu-plant (and) rusu-e3-plant |
| 7' | e-le-ni-⸢ti⸣-[ia ...] | my upper limbs |
| 8' | {d}ID₂ KU₃ [...] | The pure river |
| 9' | A.MEŠ ID₂ KU₃.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | The pure waters of the river |
| 10' | u₃ a-na-ku ki-ma {⸢d⸣}[ID₂ ...] | And I, like the River |
| 11' | EN₂ at-ti-man-nu [...] | Incantation: “You are . . [.] . |
| 12' | ⸢i⸣-na lib₃-⸢bi⸣-[ša₂ ...] | “The heart of the eša-priestess |
| 13' | i-na ⸢šap⸣-[ti-ša₂ ...] | in its šapētu-vessel |
| 14' | ⸢i-na⸣ [...] | “Ina’e |
| o iii | ||
| 1' | ⸢mar-kas₃⸣-[sa ...] | “Markašesa-plant |
| 2' | e-du-u₂ [...] | (Sum) The old man ... (Akk) The young man |
| 3' | šam-ru-ti [...] | The šamrūtu-priestess |
| 4' | IM-šu₂-nu a-a ⸢i⸣-[zi-qa-am-ma ...] | May their wind not blow against me and |
| 5' | ina qi₂-bit {d}⸢nuska⸣ [...] | By the command of Enuska |
| 6' | EN₂ ŠIKA ša₂ SILA.MEŠ ⸢am⸣-[me-ni ...] | Incantation: “ŠIKA of the streets, eamēni-disease |
| 7' | am-me-ni na-aš₂-pa-⸢ra⸣-[tu-ki ...] | Why do your supplications ...? |
| 8' | {munus}UŠ₁₁.ZU qaq-qad a-ma-tu-[ki ...] | (As for) the woman, the head of your words |
| 9' | el-li a-na u₂-[ri ...] | Pure to the city ... |
| 10' | ur-rad a-na qaq-qa-⸢ri⸣-[im-ma ...] | I turned back to the middle of the earth |
| 11' | ina kib-si-ki x [...] | (Sum) In your ..., ... (Akk) With your limbs ... |
| 12' | GIDIM ri-da-a-⸢ti⸣ [...] | (Sum) The ghost of Rida'eti ... (Akk) [The ghost of] Ridas ... |
| 13' | a-maḫ-ḫaṣ muḫ-ḫa-[ki ...] | (As for) the Amaḫbašu temple on your right side |
| 14' | a-dal-laḫ lib₃-ba-⸢ki⸣ [...] | The adallaḫ-demon of the inner city |
| 15' | e-piš-tum [...] | The deed |
| 16' | AN-u₂ a-na-ku-⸢ma⸣ [...] | (Sum) I am the one who makes heavens tremble(?) (Akk) The heavens I am, I am |
| 17' | KI-tum a-na-ku-[ma ...] | I am the earth and ... |
| 18' | zi-qit GIR₂.TAB [...] | (If) a Scorpion ... . |
| 19' | si-ḫi-il {giš}[DIḪ₃ ...] | ... juniper |
| 20' | KUR-u₂ zaq-ru [...] | (If) it is clear: the enemy . |
| 21' | up-ša₂-šu-⸢ki⸣ [...] ; ⸢NU i-qar⸣-[ri-bu-u-ni ...] | Upšašu-emu-ṣābi |
| o iv | ||
| 1' | [... rit-ta]-ki | ... your hand |
| 2' | [... aš₂]-⸢šak⸣-ki | ... I have gathered for you |
| 3' | [... u₂-ba-ʾa]-ak-ki | ... he will cleanse you |
| 4' | [... kaš]-⸢šap⸣-tu₂ | ... a kind of beer |
| 5' | [...] ⸢e⸣-piš-tu₂ | ... e’epištu-disease |
| 6' | [... lu-ud]-⸢di⸣ TU₆ EN₂ | May I be able to go forth . . [.] . Incantation-formula |
| 7' | [...] ⸢qi₂⸣-de-e | ... eqīdê-plant |
| 8' | [... ma-aq-lu]-u ... | ... awe-inspiring ... |
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