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DT 266 (P424552)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | DT 266 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424552 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 7 | May life be long before ama! |
| obverse 2 | The king... |
| reverse 5' | in his palace he established. |
| obverse 10 | Before Utu, may I be sated. |
| obverse 5 | ama daily guard my life |
| obverse 11 | whatever evil that is present in my palace, |
| reverse 3' | All of the scribal art became frightened. |
| obverse 4 | I guarded their lives and made (them) rejoice. |
| obverse 1 | (If) a man and woman |
| reverse 6' | Your great divinity is unrivaled. |
| obverse 6 | may he restore. |
| reverse 2' | They made him wide (and) he made him wide (and) with the wisdom of Ninigiku he made wide. |
| obverse 3 | I imposed upon them a punishment. |
| reverse 4' | Written and checked according to its original. |
| reverse 1' | which Nabu (and) Tashmetu gave to him, and |
| obverse 12 | By your command and your command |
| obverse 8 | like gold, I have no rival. |
| obverse 9 | Let me bring you! The days of life, the long days |
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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