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BM 038294 (P480828)
Incantation, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038294 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480828 |
| Museum no. | BM 038294 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | x-x-x-x-x [...] | |
| 2' | pa-šir ar₂-nu ⸢ma⸣-[miti ...] | “The one who removes the curse, my curse, |
| 3' | pa-⸢šir GIG⸣ di-⸢ʾi⸣ [...] | (Sum) The “pā’ešir-demon, the sick one, the di<eali₃-disease, the ... of the temple(?) (Akk) The pa‘esḫṣir-distortion of the sick man, the Idi-eali-e23-dissemination of the .... |
| 4' | pa-šir MAŠ₂.GE₆.MEŠ ⸢ḪUL⸣.[MEŠ ...] | “Pašir of dreams, eḫul-plant |
| 5' | ia-a-ši ina te-⸢ka⸣ [...] | No one in your assembly |
| 6' | ina IGI {d}UTU ⸢pu⸣-[ṭur ...] | in front of Šamaš epūtbur plant |
| 7' | pu-šur ma-ma-ta ša₂ ⸢at⸣-[tam-mu-u ...] | Who is responsible for everything that is done by Etammû |
| 8' | pu-šur MAŠ₂.GE₆.MEŠ [...] | Release the black-headed people |
| 9' | pu-šur ša₂ {lu₂}⸢UŠ₁₁⸣.[ZU.MU ...] | The responsibility of the envoy |
| 10' | kiš-pi-šu₂-nu [...] | Their witchcraft |
| 11' | u₂-tal-lil [...] | (Sum) The one who ... the ... of the gods ... (Akk) He purified ... |
| 12' | ki-ma qe₂-e [...] | Like a ... |
| 13' | ba-la₂-ṭi [...] | Its life |
| 14' | ⸢EN₂ ak⸣-[tab-sa-ka ...] | Incantation: “You are the one who binds ... |
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
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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