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Sm 0773 + Sm 0932 (P426448)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Udugḫul, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0773 + Sm 0932 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426448 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Udugḫul |
| 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 5 | In the evening, the evil udug-demon, the one who returns to the scribal art |
| obverse 3' | May I be sated with a qarnu-vessel, a qarnu-vessel, and a qarnu-vessel. |
| obverse 7' | If he does a wicked thing, |
| obverse 2' | whose horns are a fitting part of the mountain range |
| reverse 2 | ... he smote a storm, and he destroyed the house. |
| obverse 5' | .................. |
| reverse 3 | May the good udug, the evil ala demon, stand outside |
| obverse 8' | Asalluhi, the son of Eridu, a liar filled with joy, he made Eridu rejoice. |
| reverse 6 | ... will become visible and will become visible. |
| obverse 1' | azupiru-plant, the seat of the sarû-vessel |
| obverse 4' | The seven of them, the seven of them, the ones who are to live |
| obverse 9' | Marduk, the one who loves my city, approached me and he gave the instructions of my city. |
| reverse 1 | He erected the temple on behalf of a man. |
| obverse 6' | who establishes everything that evil and justice |
| reverse 4 | May the good udug and good lamma protective deity stand with him |
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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