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Rm 0278 (P424680)
CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 0278 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424680 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft |
| 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 11 | They swore to me and they swore an oath, a sword, and a curse |
| obverse 2 | The great gods, the supreme one who establishes the cult centers |
| obverse 13 | The curse (related to) father and mother, the brother of the sister, the evildoer, the evildoer, swore. |
| obverse 3 | I am the one who does not know what he does. |
| reverse 4' | of the wisdom of Ea made greater and all the scribes |
| obverse 10 | The libation of illness is present in his body. |
| reverse 2' | (Property) of Nabû (and) Tashmetu. |
| reverse 1' | The palace of Assurnasirpal, the king |
| reverse 3' | he enlarged it, (and) he restored it. |
| obverse 5 | (As for) the sihiltu-disease of the outer wall, in my heart |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: Ea, ama, and Marduk, the great gods |
| obverse 12 | their deaths, a uu-priest and a uu-priest |
| reverse 7' | in his palace he established. |
| obverse 8 | I have sinned against them, I have sinned against them. |
| obverse 4 | I am afraid and I am not afraid. |
| reverse 6' | It is the apsû. |
| obverse 14 | That I have written, I have seen (it) in the street, in the street. |
| obverse 6 | (If) he is sick, he will die. |
| obverse 9 | After you have finished the work, the light of ama will be visible |
| obverse 7 | of my father and my mother I did not honor their crime. |
| reverse 5' | he smote him, he smote him for his battle. |
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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