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Shamash Religious Texts pl. 12 Sm 0166 (P426421)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shamash Religious Texts pl. 12 Sm 0166 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426421 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 13' | In his heart he will die, he will be sated, his life will be long. |
| reverse 1' | I seized, ditto, anything evil... |
| obverse 15' | to the heavens his sabar net he heaped up, and |
| obverse 12' | Its midst is fire, it eats fish. |
| obverse 18' | he smote his forehead with a reddish horn. |
| obverse 5' | in the sea of the wide land |
| obverse 4' | to the sea of the plain |
| obverse 14' | He smote his sabar net towards heaven |
| obverse 8' | he sat down from the sanctuaries of Anshanunzu |
| obverse 21' | At that time, the mountains were seized, the mountains were seized. |
| reverse 2' | by the command of ama, in distant days, in distant days |
| obverse 9' | he set up a ritual assemblage in Anzanunzi. |
| obverse 2' | He made the earth shine like the plain. |
| obverse 11' | he returned its outskirts to the great waters. |
| obverse 19' | he will take away. He will seize him in his hands and his horns. |
| obverse 3' | 'I shall go like a lion in the steppe, and |
| obverse 24' | to be abandoned |
| obverse 1' | Asakku, like a flood, he plundered |
| obverse 10' | the prince..., who dwells in Agula, |
| obverse 22' | he made the foundation of the plain firm. |
| obverse 17' | The heavens grew like Adad. |
| obverse 6' | ... clothed with linen, clothed with linen. |
| obverse 20' | ..................... |
| obverse 23' | ... that he made surpassing |
| obverse 16' | The bird of heaven eats the day |
| obverse 7' | his asakku-offering may he take away like a snare. |
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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