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BM 121058 (P422334)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM 121058 |
|---|---|
| ID | P422334 |
| Museum no. | BM 121058 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 5 | to build like a plant |
| reverse 1' | ... man |
| reverse 12' | Incantation: 'weapon...' |
| reverse 6' | like a bowl of ghee |
| reverse 7' | like a pru... |
| obverse 9 | the people |
| reverse 8' | heir of ama |
| reverse 13' | Written and checked according to its original. |
| reverse 11' | To ama, foremost of the gods |
| obverse 10 | ..... |
| reverse 4' | like a buragan vessel |
| obverse 4 | The curse from the midst of the sky... |
| obverse 2 | The judgment from the Apsu... |
| reverse 5' | Like a pig... |
| reverse 10' | the hand of Utu, the foremost of the gods |
| obverse 8 | To the womb of the four world quarters... |
| reverse 9' | For ama, foremost one |
| obverse 6 | 'Ahhzu, like a lion... |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: Oxen... from the womb |
| reverse 3' | Amelu(?) |
| obverse 3 | evildoer in the midst of heaven |
| obverse 7 | in its four quarters |
| reverse 2' | may it be sweetened... |
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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