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ZA 097, 269-270 (P429963)

Incantation, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE

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Designation	ZA 097, 269-270
ID	P429963
Museum no.	BM 034816 + 1882-07-04, 0139
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian; Greek; Sumerian
Period	Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
Genre	Incantation
Find spot	Babylon (mod. Bābil)
Coordinates	32.5350, 44.4258

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	grass-fed oil
obverse 5a	from the House of the Mountain Range to the Place of the Gathering of the Seeds
reverse 1a	ecstatic
obverse 3a	to enter into the house
obverse 2b	Namtar, evil, the asakku-demon, the sick, unfavorable,
obverse 4b	You do not stand in the house.
reverse 4	equid
reverse 2	ebony, oil, oil
obverse 1b	May it be favourable! May it be favourable! May it be favourable!
obverse 4a	in order to set up the house
obverse 5b	You do not pay attention to a person's house.
obverse 1a	to Lu-lila, the young woman, the young woman of the udakara shrine,
obverse 3b	do not return him to the house.
reverse 1b	a kind of grass
obverse 2a	to Namtar, the evil-doer, the smiter of the evil-doer, came out
reverse 3	exorcist

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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