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Shamash Religious Texts pl. 10 Sm 0728 (P425559)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shamash Religious Texts pl. 10 Sm 0728 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425559 |
| 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 |
| 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 1 | Incantation: O king, whose heart is pure, suitable for kingship |
| obverse 5 | a new granary, suitable for a gift |
| obverse 7 | (a kind of profession) |
| reverse 1' | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his hand with my name, |
| obverse 3 | he sat down in the aursag tree. Its horns are sweet. |
| obverse 2 | You are the one who makes the heart happy, the pure one, the supplication of kingship |
| obverse 4 | The eresh which is in the mountain is good, it is good. |
| reverse 2' | may Ashur and Ninlil overthrow him fiercely, and |
| reverse 3' | May his name and his seed disappear from the land. |
| obverse 6 | Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, |
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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