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CT 17, pl. 27-28, Sm 704 (P425549)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Asaggiga, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 17, pl. 27-28, Sm 704 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425549 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Asaggiga |
| 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 25' | he covered it like a river. |
| reverse 16' | who is suitable for the paphala functionary |
| obverse 12' | ... as soon as he has seized the water, |
| obverse 23' | The young man who has no god brought the breast |
| obverse 7' | ... the brewers will do. |
| reverse 25' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| obverse 22' | ... wherever he seeks a fate, |
| reverse 22' | ... is black(?) |
| obverse 30' | ... has come to him. |
| obverse 16' | ... they will become hostile to you. |
| reverse 8' | After he had sat down in his bedchamber with an eagle |
| obverse 3' | from where he went |
| reverse 19' | let the evil udug and lamma protective deity stand outside. |
| reverse 11' | he renovated (them) with oil, oil, and cedar oil. |
| reverse 21' | Incantation formula:... Hand of a Ghost. |
| reverse 12' | the exalted king, the king of the cedar, |
| reverse 20' | May the good udug and good lamma priests stand with him. |
| reverse 6' | he established for him from the... |
| obverse 20' | They will perform the extispicy in her extispicy. |
| obverse 9' | They established good quality lapis lazuli as a gift |
| reverse 14' | the namub-priestess of Prince |
| obverse 29' | he smote |
| obverse 26' | ... like a river he approached him |
| obverse 4' | ... at their journey |
| obverse 19' | they seized |
| obverse 6' | .................. he raises his head. |
| reverse 24' | The palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria, who to (the god) Aur and the goddess Ninlil swore. |
| reverse 2' | ... I have sent... |
| obverse 10' | ... they placed saqumtu-disease. |
| obverse 18' | Will he act as a loan in Ahazi? |
| reverse 23' | Month XII, 12th day, eponym year of Bel-emuranni, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 24' | ... may the lord of the gods receive, and |
| reverse 10' | ... pure thing, pure thing |
| reverse 13' | Ishpu is a slander over him. |
| obverse 27' | he made it grow like... |
| reverse 9' | Ditto, in his sleep, his sin |
| obverse 33' | to serve |
| obverse 8' | ... they will plunder. |
| reverse 17' | You seize in the body of a muttallukku-demon and |
| reverse 7' | ... his.. you set up and |
| obverse 15' | they seized |
| obverse 17' | they seized |
| reverse 5' | .... he shall remove and |
| obverse 11' | They seized them like a pra demon |
| obverse 14' | ... as if it were not an apsû-demon, |
| reverse 3' | of Asalluhi |
| obverse 31' | he poured out |
| obverse 1' | who does not have a rival |
| reverse 1' | ... |
| reverse 4' | he made grow |
| obverse 32' | ... he has taken |
| reverse 18' | from the house : EDA.NI.TA |
| reverse 26' | They rejoiced before the whole universe, the joy of the scribal art. |
| obverse 5' | when they had entered the earth |
| obverse 13' | like fish of the engurra festival, |
| obverse 2' | ... has no rival. |
| obverse 21' | they seized the eemenni ritual |
| reverse 15' | he swore by an eridu-demon. |
| obverse 28' | ... like a huhuru-demon they look at him. |
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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