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Rm 2, 229 (P425004)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 2, 229 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425004 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic |
| 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 9 | The Arrow, the Lion, and the Bow |
| obverse 11 | the namkur priest(ess) of the land from the earth |
| obverse 19 | The enemy will not overturn its head (instead) |
| obverse 2 | he smote him |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: Incantation: ENURU. |
| obverse 8 | A foreigner... a star... |
| obverse 5 | Its endowed with a place that cannot be abandoned |
| obverse 6 | The enemy who does not cross over(?) the border(?) |
| obverse 15 | Its mouth (is) the good of Asalluhi |
| obverse 16 | ... he built for him, and a reign of long days |
| reverse 1' | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name with my name, |
| obverse 20 | ... in a black spot before ulpa’e,... pure water |
| obverse 4 | A foreigner, a foreigner, a foreigner, a great light(?)... the tablet(?) |
| obverse 21 | dates, a-flour, flour, flour |
| obverse 7 | whose nose and nose are sweetened |
| obverse 14 | the allies of Enlil |
| obverse 17 | The... who decrees the lands, who decrees the lands |
| reverse 3' | May his name and his seed disappear from the land. |
| obverse 13 | The... seed(?) of the shrine, the shrine of the gods, the copy of the enemy,... the lands |
| obverse 18 | The..., the one who makes the mood pleasant, the one who makes the heart rejoice |
| obverse 12 | By the command of the god Sîn, the..., the enemy, the lands, its front cannot be overturned |
| obverse 10 | The Arrow, the place where ulpa’e stands, the place where ulpa’e stands |
| obverse 22 | ...... |
| reverse 2' | May Aur and Ninlil overthrow him in fierce rage. |
| obverse 3 | The arms of the sasasasasasasasasasas, the sasasasasasasasas, the sasasasasasasasas, the sasasasasas |
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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