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Sm 0091 (P425232)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0091 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425232 |
| 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 5b | The city did not build a city; it was not established as a flood. |
| obverse 4a | house not built, city not built |
| reverse 3' | May Aur and Ninlil overthrow him in fierce rage. |
| obverse 3b | It is unfavourable. It is unfavourable. It is unfavourable. |
| reverse 4' | May his name and his seed disappear from the land. |
| obverse 5a | He did not build a city, he did not establish settlements. |
| obverse 4b | He did not build a house, nor did he build a city. |
| obverse 1b | The pure temple, the temple of the gods, is not built in the shrine. |
| reverse 2' | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name with me, |
| obverse 2b | There is no 'hand'-mark, no 'hand'-mark. |
| obverse 2a | reed that does not come out, reed that does not produce |
| obverse 1a | Incantation: "The sacred house, the temple of the gods, did not build a place." |
| reverse 1' | Its ritual: you do not follow the king of the gods. |
| obverse 3a | brick that cannot be fashioned, tree that cannot be fashioned |
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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