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AfO 11, 366-367, pl. 4 (P426451)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AfO 11, 366-367, pl. 4 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426451 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Mīs pî |
| 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 | may it be good from the brickwork of the house. |
| obverse 4 | when Kusu in the princehood was guarded |
| obverse 11 | Your flour is the divine plan, your... is the brickwork of the house. |
| obverse 9 | for flour, fine flour, cedar, aur-wood |
| obverse 2 | Whoever erases my inscribed name or places it in the oath |
| obverse 15 | let the evil tongue stand outside. |
| obverse 22 | ... a statue(?) |
| obverse 7 | I want to... pure soup |
| obverse 16 | May the evil-doer stand in the evening. |
| obverse 3 | by Ezina and Kusu the namnun priestess |
| obverse 12 | Give me a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious omens! |
| obverse 8 | By the command of the lord, the lord,... |
| obverse 14 | May my life be good, may my good fortune be good. |
| obverse 17 | Incantation formula:... flour |
| obverse 18 | Its ritual: The agubbû-vessel of Kusu |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: flour of princeliness |
| obverse 6 | My prayer, which in the princely rites is a rimku-prayer to the lord. |
| obverse 19 | ... evil stars...... |
| obverse 21 | ... a reed mat |
| obverse 5 | sweetened flour of princeliness |
| obverse 10 | (a kind of tree) he plundered, he who like cedar, juniper, |
| obverse 20 | ... the pure stars...... |
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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