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CT 16, pl. 12-14, BM 46296 + (P464798)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Udugḫul, Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 16, pl. 12-14, BM 46296 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P464798 |
| Museum no. | BM 046296 + BM 046374 + BM 046408 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Udugḫul |
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 4'b | a young man in the house of his father-in-law they shall kill. : |
| col 2 4' | May my lord, father, and mother of Enlil speak! |
| col 2 16' | By means of ditto, may my life be long! |
| col 1 2'a | to make the mouth of a man happy |
| col 2 9'b | ama, lord of the judges, may the gods speak : |
| col 2 7' | You cannot cross the river for the life of Nanna. |
| col 2 1' | May you be the life of Enutila, may you be the life of Ninutila |
| col 2 8' | Sîn, who carries out the extispicy, may he not speak evil words. |
| reverse col 3 1 | by the life of Pabilsag, the scepter of the nether world, |
| col 1 8' | The god, merciful one, who listens to prayers, |
| col 1 13' | I am the one who weeps |
| reverse col 3 2 | Tanittu-Bel wrote |
| col 1 6' | For them, they are snares, snares that are behind the man. |
| col 1 3'b | If a man has sat on a throne |
| col 2 2' | May you be the life of Enmeara! May you be the life of Ninmeara! |
| col 2 9'a | Itar-reene chosen |
| col 2 14'a | may Nane, daughter of Enki, be appeased. |
| col 2 11' | The goddess Itar, who by his command the Anunnaki did not know, ditto. |
| col 2 12' | By Namma, the mother of Enki, be exorcised |
| col 1 10' | he seized the one whose god took him to the kurummatu-festival. |
| col 2 13' | Thus says Ea: |
| col 1 11' | I am Lamatu, I am Lamatu |
| col 2 14'b | May ditto the Amorite deity Ea speak! |
| col 1 9' | As for the Ishtar-ree gods, they were bringing them to the netherworld. |
| col 2 10' | By the life of Inanna, his command, the Anunna gods did not seize him(?) |
| col 1 12' | You are Lamatu, you are the nugig midwife of the cattlepen. |
| col 2 6' | The lady, my father, and the mother of Ninlil, may she speak |
| col 1 2'b | If a man, in the morning, seeks a lawsuit |
| col 1 15' | I am the one who stands at the threshing floor |
| col 2 3' | Be exorcised by the life of the lord, mother, and Enlil |
| col 1 14' | You are the udug demon |
| col 1 1'a | to eat like a fig tree |
| col 1 3'a | to raise the child of a man |
| col 1 7' | For the god Sîn, the one who gives birth to a shepherd, the one who gives birth to a shepherd |
| col 1 1'b | In the thicket, as if it were raining, : |
| col 1 4'a | to smite |
| col 2 5' | Beloved of the lady of the mother and mother, Ninlil! |
| col 1 5' | The supplication(s) of the supplication(s) of the supplication(s) of the supplication(s) of a man |
| col 2 15' | be exorcised by Nindara, the statue of my ancestors |
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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