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Rm 0421 (P424756)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 0421 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424756 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 4' | Incantation: When a god makes a decision |
| col 2' 9' | exalted one who perfects the radiance of the netherworld, |
| col 2' 7' | the pious god of all the lands |
| col 2' 5' | Incantation: O day, god, perfecting the pure city |
| col 2' 3' | (If) the Twins stand at the side of the moon: that god will stand there. |
| col 2' 6' | When the gods created the black-headed ones, they made them bow down. |
| col 2' 1' | You sat down and sat down. |
| col 2' 2' | You set up a libation bowl. |
| col 2' 8' | The gods have sworn by all the lands. |
| col 2' 11' | whose aura is full of radiance, whose aura is full of fearsomeness |
| col 2' 12' | ... the divine radiance, who constantly seeks out the divine radiance, |
| col 2' 10' | stag, stag, etellu-taqqin, stag, taqqin, taqqin, |
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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