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CT 17, pl. 27-28 (P426392)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Asaggiga, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 17, pl. 27-28 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426392 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 22 | ... they set up shadûm-offerings. |
| obverse 30 | Will he who can see, see it? |
| obverse 8 | ... like a ghost he goes out. |
| obverse 10 | ... like a.... he sat. |
| reverse 10' | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| reverse 2' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 9 | he destroyed |
| obverse 11 | he smote them like lightning. |
| obverse 16 | ... on their way |
| obverse 7 | he made perfect the oxen |
| obverse 21 | they established good quality ghee |
| reverse 7' | if that work does not pay, |
| reverse 3' | who trusts in Aur and Ninlil |
| obverse 24 | ... like water he sank. |
| obverse 14 | ... has no rival. |
| obverse 32 | The extispicy is performed in her extispicy. |
| obverse 29 | they seized |
| obverse 31 | they seized |
| reverse 6' | which among the kings who came before me |
| obverse 26 | ... as if it were not an apsû-demon, |
| obverse 18 | ...... he will make him enter the underworld. |
| obverse 12 | ...... he is a frightened man, he is constantly frightened. |
| obverse 4 | ... like a liar in the underworld, |
| reverse 5' | They rejoiced over me, they rejoiced, they rejoiced, the joy of the scribal art. |
| reverse 4' | which Nabû and Tashmetu gave great wisdom |
| obverse 17 | they shall acquire in the earth |
| reverse 8' | the wisdom of Nabû, the one who is assiduous towards the shrines, as many as there are |
| obverse 3 | he made it shine like rain. |
| obverse 2 | The Asakku-demon has come to the land like a kushu-demon. |
| reverse 11' | Its ritual: he is not negligent; the king of the gods, Ashur. |
| obverse 20 | ... they will plunder. |
| reverse 1' | ......, |
| reverse 12' | Whoever breaks the contract, whether his name |
| reverse 14' | May (the god) Aur and the goddess Ninlil overthrow him fiercely and |
| obverse 27 | they shall seize him |
| obverse 28 | ... they will become hostile to you. |
| obverse 5 | he built for me. |
| obverse 15 | when he went |
| reverse 15' | May his name (and) his seed disappear from the land. |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: Like the Asag demon that has encircled the Land |
| obverse 25 | They were seized like fish of the engur. |
| reverse 13' | will write with my name. |
| obverse 19 | he will perform for the Iku-official. |
| obverse 6 | ... like a lion... |
| obverse 23 | They were seized like a snare |
| obverse 13 | who has no rival |
| reverse 9' | I wrote, collated, and collated it on tablets. |
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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