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1879-07-08, 0051 unpublished unassigned ? (P451813)
CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1879-07-08, 0051 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P451813 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Purification > Bīt rimki; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 12' | Incantation: O lord, builder of heaven and earth, |
| 9' | You recite with the king the incantation and you recite the incantation. |
| 13' | (If) a pigeon is seized and seized(?) |
| 1' | ...... white cedar |
| 10' | [Incantation: O ama, these] arable land are exempt. |
| 7' | I took in hand among them, guarded their lives, and |
| 3' | (If) on its right and left he rises and the king stands in front of a torch: he will become long. |
| 8' | You pound an ox and seed. |
| 6' | He speaks as follows: “The 2nd of the house is seized, and he speaks as follows.” |
| 17' | The king speaks... |
| 2' | You put juniper into it, and you place 2 cypress resins in it, and the king |
| 16' | You place (it) in front of a ritual assemblage... |
| 14' | You throw a bird into the water and you pound it. |
| 11' | You recite the incantation with the king and he will recover. |
| 5' | You recite this incantation after him and you speak as follows: |
| 4' | You set up these libations 7 times to his right, 7 times to his left. |
| 15' | You draw 2 fish and you recite the incantation. |
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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