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Sm 0504 (P425449)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0504 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425449 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 9' | May his name and his seed disappear from the land. |
| reverse 2' | who is attentive to Ashur and Mullissu |
| 12 | be exorcised by Utu, king of Ur |
| 9 | Beloved of Ninlil, the one of all the lands! |
| reverse 7' | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name with my name, |
| 6 | ... a man |
| 2 | to know, know |
| reverse 10' | (If) he does not approach him: the king will die. |
| 13 | Be exorcised by Nuska! |
| 1 | Incantation: place, place, place, place, place |
| 8 | Beloved of Enlil, king of all the lands! |
| 7 | Be exorcised in heaven, be exorcised in earth! |
| reverse 1' | The palace of Ashurbanipal |
| reverse 8' | Aur and Mullissu rejoiced over him. |
| 11 | Beloved of Nergal, king of Gudua! |
| 3 | mouth |
| 4 | (gloss: new break) |
| 10 | Beloved of Ninurta, heir of the Earra temple! |
| reverse 4' | the wisdom of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards the shrines, as many as there are |
| reverse 5' | I wrote, collated, and collated it on tablets. |
| 5 | (gloss: break) |
| reverse 6' | I deposited it in my palace for the viewing of my prayer. |
| reverse 3' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
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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