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Ist – (P480894)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian, Babylonia · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Ist – |
|---|---|
| ID | P480894 |
| Museum no. | Ist – |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Babylonia |
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 | ⸢EN₂⸣ ri-it-ti man-zi-it zu-qa-qi₂-pi | Incantation: “Rītti, manzitu-demon of the ziggurat, |
| 2 | [u₃] ši-i kaš-šap-tum i-na-ak-ka-ma ; kiš-pi-ša₂ | And he will kill you, and his witchcraft |
| 3 | [lup-pa]-ḫa-aš₂-šim-ma GIM {d}TIR.AN.NA ša-me-e | I will make it shine like the rainbow of heaven. |
| 4 | lu-zi-qa-šim-ma GIM IM.SI.SA₂ ; u IM.MAR.TU | Let me raise him up like the north and west wind. |
| 5 | lu-ḫa-li-iq ur-pa-ta-ša lu-ḫa-li-iq U₄-ša | May I be pacified, may I be calm, may my days be long |
| 6 | lu-sa-ap-[pi-iḫ] kiš-pi-ša ša₂ i-te-ne₂-ep-pu-ša ia-ši | Let me release the witchcraft that has been performed against me |
| 7 | u₃ na-aš-[pa]-ra-ti ša₂ iš-ta-⸢na-pa⸣-ra ; a-na ia-[ši] | and the messages that have been sent to me |
| 8 | ṣa-lil [ne₂-be-ru] ṣa-lil [ka-a-ru] | Šalil means “to pass,’ Ṣillī means kāru. |
| r | ||
| 1' | ša₂ i-na ID₂ im-lu-[ʾu ...] | who in the river ... |
| 2' | ša₂ i-na {giš}IG iš-lu-⸢pu⸣ [...] | Whom in the door jambs ... |
| 3' | ša₂ i-na su₂-qi₂ iš-bu-šu ⸢lu⸣-[u₂ ...] ; še-pi-ša₂ | Whom in the street he created, elû-priestess |
| 4' | ša₂ i-na ḫur-ri iš-du-du lu-u₂ mu-⸢ša₂⸣-[ṭi-ša₂] | he who in the ḫurru-temple has gone down, may it be her (own) name |
| 5' | ša₂ i-na da-ba-ab il-qu-u₂ ; lu-u₂ da-ba-ab-ti pi-ša | Whoever in the lawsuit takes (this tablet) or breaks the contract, |
| 6' | u lu-u₂ ba-al-tu ša₂ qa-qa-di-ša | or the life of her head |
| 7' | i-na na-pa-ḫi {d}UTU a-pa-šar-šu-nu-ti | Through the protection of Šamaš, my lord, |
| 8' | {u₂}im-ḫur-lim li-im-ḫa-ṣa le-es-sa | a plant of imḫur-līm-plant may it grow in abundance. |
| 9' | {[giš]}GAN.U₅ li-pa-ši-ra kiš-pi-ša₂ | may a thornbush cut off its witchcraft |
| 10' | {[u₂}eli]-kul-[la] li-ter-ra | may elikulla plant return |
| 11' | [...]-a-[...] INIM-sa a-na pi-ša₂ | ... her word to the mouth |
| 12' | [...] gam-lum li-paṭ-ṭi-ra ki-ṣir ki-pi-id ŠA₃-[ša₂] | ... may he release the ... of the netherworld, the knot of his hand |
Sources & licences
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