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1879-07-08, 0071 unpublished unassigned ? (P451822)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1879-07-08, 0071 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P451822 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Šurpu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 1 2' | ... the curse (related to) the hand-lifting of a ghost |
| col 1 12' | ... may they bring to me, may they... grant you... |
| col 1 9' | ... you see..., you see..., |
| col 1 3' | ... may Ihru come to me. |
| col 1 10' | ... you see..., thus you see... |
| col 1 7' | Incantation: You are exalted. You are the one whose name is everything |
| col 1 4' | ... the lady of the steppe, who hears the utterances, |
| col 1 6' | May you be..., may you be..., may you be..., may you be.... |
| col 1 5' | ... the prince(?) of your divinity, I placed a scepter for life |
| col 1 8' | ... you see the curse. |
| col 1 11' | ... [...]......... a curse, a curse,... |
| col 1 13' | ... gave me a sealed document |
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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