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Sm 1708 (P426058)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1708 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426058 |
| 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 18 | ... may.. take away, and |
| obverse 7' | You are frightened like a lion. |
| reverse 11 | He looked at the gate of the Agrun temple with arrows. |
| reverse 16 | what is it that has come to an end? My son |
| reverse 4 | In their supplications, he... |
| obverse 8' | The Asag demon sat on the donkey's neck |
| reverse 3 | he made the foundation of its sheepfold firm. |
| obverse 5' | The evil one, the evil one, the evil one, the evil one, shattered the forehead, |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| reverse 7 | They were seized, they were seized, they were killed. |
| reverse 8 | ... and he has sinned against each other. |
| obverse 2' | ... he shall take it as a loan. |
| reverse 22 | ... may.. be restored and |
| reverse 14 | to his father Ea to the lord entered, and he will recover. |
| obverse 14' | I am a male, I am a male, I am a male, I am a female, I have no rival, I have no rival. |
| reverse 6 | He strews good things in the middle. |
| reverse 12 | When they came, he became frightened, he became frightened. |
| reverse 19 | he made enter into the cattlepen |
| reverse 9 | of Asalluhi, son of Eridu |
| obverse 3' | ... as a gift, accept the prayer. |
| reverse 5 | He... the good udug in the stall |
| obverse 15' | the people, the people, her people |
| obverse 11' | ... I filled their mouths with... and their princes |
| reverse 20 | ... you strew... and |
| obverse 13' | The pregnant woman, the pregnant woman, the pregnant woman, the pregnant woman, the pregnant woman, the pregnant woman, the pregnant woman, the pregnant woman, the pregnant woman |
| reverse 17 | the great utensils |
| obverse 12' | he smote |
| obverse 6' | In the cattlepen he arose like a pig. |
| reverse 15 | ... he made perfect like a furious storm in the plain. |
| obverse 10' | Its donkey stallions piled up in the dust and changed its dwelling. |
| reverse 10 | Enlil, the shepherd of the city |
| reverse 13 | He entered the house of his father Enki and spoke to him: |
| reverse 21 | stand(?) |
| reverse 1 | suckling male donkey that does not drink milk |
| obverse 9' | The Asakku-demon sank at the threshing floor and |
| obverse 4' | The ram, the evil udug creature, the evil ala creature of the steppe, sat in the stall |
| reverse 2 | I did not... the one who screams, the one who screams, |
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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