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Rm 2, 196 (P424989)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki; CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 2, 196 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424989 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki; 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 3' 5' | Wording for... |
| reverse col 4' 1' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse col 3' 1' | ... |
| reverse col 3' 14' | ... |
| reverse col 3' 2' | from the top |
| reverse col 3' 12' | by Asalluhi |
| reverse col 3' 3' | by Asalluhi |
| reverse col 3' 10' | ... fruit |
| reverse col 4' 10' | Whoever carries (this tablet) off or writes his name with my name, |
| reverse col 4' 12' | May his hands and seed disappear from the land. |
| reverse col 3' 7' | ...... |
| reverse col 4' 8' | For my reading, I established (it) in my palace. |
| reverse col 3' 9' | pure hands |
| reverse col 4' 6' | the wisdom of Nabû, the one who carries out your sands, as many as there are |
| reverse col 3' 6' | Incantation:... rejoicing |
| reverse col 4' 9' | Your greatness is unrivaled. |
| reverse col 3' 13' | which he had built |
| reverse col 3' 4' | which he had built |
| reverse col 4' 3' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| reverse col 3' 11' | ... orchard |
| reverse col 4' 5' | Whoever in the future, at any time, seeks a lawsuit or litigation against the king, my lord, |
| reverse col 4' 7' | I wrote (and) collated (it) in tablets. |
| reverse col 4' 2' | who trusts in Aur and Ninlil |
| reverse col 4' 4' | They rejoiced over him. The eyes were full of awe-inspiring brilliance. |
| reverse col 3' 8' | to Ginu |
| reverse col 4' 11' | May the anaru-priest and Ninlil overthrow him, and |
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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