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Sm 0898 (P425656)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0898 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425656 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | 2 breccia-vessels, water of the agubbû-vessel: |
| 4' | After it, the awe-inspiring radiance of the king will be released. |
| 17' | I saw the date palm(?) and the ertu-flour, my fault(?) |
| 3' | It is the wording of... 23 sheep. |
| 9' | The haruspex at its right and left he rises and |
| 7' | You mix cedar and juniper into water. |
| 1' | The namu-festival of Asar in the Abzu in Eridu was installed. |
| 8' | You place 2 arrows in it. |
| 18' | The evil and the radiance of my body are present among the great gods. |
| 15' | It is a good thing that I saw in a censer. |
| 13' | Incantation: Ea opens Ea 7 times and |
| 10' | The king stands in front of the torch and |
| 11' | These water rations stand 7 times on its right and 7 times on its left. |
| 16' | I have seen an incantation-plant, let it be removed. |
| 5' | (If) he is surrounded by a reed mat: he will recover. |
| 14' | tamarisk, incense-plant, date palm in his hands, |
| 2' | May Enki make the E-nun temple shine for him. |
| 12' | You recite this incantation after it and it is favourable. |
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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