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BM 123382 (P422472)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt salāʾ mê, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM 123382 |
|---|---|
| ID | P422472 |
| Museum no. | BM 123382 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt salāʾ mê |
| 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 8 | he sanctified Babylon, he sanctified it |
| obverse 12 | Incantation: Incantation of Innuu and pure Abzutamua |
| obverse 9a | may the gods of heaven be holy. |
| obverse 11 | Wording of a god's tree |
| obverse 2a | who came out from the holy place |
| obverse 7 | Asalluhi, the son of Eridu, did not cast the incantation. |
| obverse 3 | by the heart of the gods they fashioned |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: Incantation of baskets of silver and kisikil grown |
| obverse 6 | he smote it, he smote it, and he removed it. |
| obverse 4 | The gods and the young men |
| obverse 9c | may it be released like heaven. |
| obverse 10 | May the evil tongue stand outside. |
| obverse 9b | as if it were the earth, |
| obverse 2b | he poured water into the canals of abundance. |
| obverse 5 | by Igisigsig and the orchardist of An |
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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