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Sm 1256 (P425833)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1256 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425833 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 3' | Whose father, his supplication, has sworn by your command, has sworn, and |
| 20' | gone, my son Asalluhi |
| 13' | I will pay back to you as a loan. |
| 9' | a woman he kissed her |
| 8' | he looked at the young woman who is not afraid. |
| 14' | What does he do to me? |
| 11' | he looked at the man who did not fear him |
| 18' | May Asalluhi not know (what you say) to you, may he not know (what you say). |
| 4' | he set up his scepter in order not to drink water. |
| 19' | As for me, what you have said, and what you have said, |
| 21' | a basket of 7 large udungal container(s) brought, |
| 10' | a man's hand that is not good he smote, |
| 5' | He has set his work on the water that cannot be altered. |
| 1' | to Ea, his father, in the Apsu set. |
| 22' | You take the 7 karpatu-vessels, the sharrû-vessels, which since ancient times had become old, and |
| 16' | Ea, his son, Marduk will be freed. |
| 15' | Enki replied to his son Asalluhi: |
| 7' | he made a woman with a hand that is not good. |
| 17' | My son, if you do not know, may he not know (it) for you |
| 12' | he entrusted to him a man with a scepter that cannot be changed. |
| 6' | he looked at the water of the nindû-vessel. |
| 2' | "My father, the mashma-demon, when you are to sit on the throne, when you are to sit on the throne, |
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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