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Sm 1978 (P426206)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Asaggiga, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1978 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426206 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 2' | went to go, my son |
| col 2' 6' | ... shall not... the day |
| col 2' 11' | When he hews his forehead(?) |
| col 2' 8' | ... he shall write down... |
| col 2' 13' | When you speak to the... of manu wood |
| col 2' 5' | ......... |
| col 2' 3' | ... the midst of the tree |
| col 2' 1' | ...... |
| col 2' 17' | ............... |
| col 2' 12' | ......... in his head, in the scepter... |
| col 2' 10' | ....... |
| col 2' 15' | flour made with mu barley flour |
| col 2' 7' | from the top of the head to the feet |
| col 2' 18' | You recite the incantation 'Alas!' |
| col 2' 16' | together they gathered together. |
| col 2' 14' | ... his eru-disease in a boat |
| col 2' 9' | ... his head and feet... |
| col 2' 4' | ... you guard... |
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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