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Meier Maqlu 04 & 05 VAT 13672 (P480940)
Prayer, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Meier Maqlu 04 & 05 VAT 13672 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480940 |
| Museum no. | VAT 13672 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) |
| Coordinates | 35.4557, 43.2611 |
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' | [...] | |
| 2' | [... {munus}UŠ₁₁].⸢ZU⸣ ša₂ ZI.KU₅.⸢RU.DA-a DU₃⸣-[ša₂] | ... a woman who is pregnant, whose extispicy is performed |
| 3' | [... tap]-pu-u lu-u ŠEŠ ⸢lu⸣-u it-ba-⸢ru⸣ | “ ..., be it a šû-demon or a lamentation priest, may it be recited. |
| 4' | [...] URU lu-u ZU-u lu-u la ZU-u | ... the city, whether known or unknown, |
| 5' | [...] ⸢lu⸣-u {munus}UŠ₁₁.ZU lu-u NITA lu-u MUNUS.BI | ... a woman, whether male or female, |
| 6' | [...] ⸢lu⸣-u TI.LA lu-u {lu₂}KUR.GAR.RA-u lu-u saḫ-ḫi-ru | ... life, whether the kurgarrû-priest or the sahhiru-priestess |
| 7' | [...] ⸢lu⸣-u nar-šin-du-u lu-u MUŠ.LAḪ₅-e | ... elu-e-u, naršindu-priest, or snake |
| 8' | [...] ⸢lu⸣-u EME KUR₂-tum ša₂ ⸢ina⸣ KUR GAL₂-te | ... elû-disease (means) a foreign tongue; there will be a flood of ebony. |
| 9' | [... kut]-⸢tum₃⸣-tu₂ {giš}kak-ku-šu₂-⸢nu liš-še⸣-bir-ma ; [...] ⸢li⸣-mid-su-nu-te TU₆ ⸢EN₂⸣ | ... kuṭtum-ētu-plant, kakkušû-plant may he cross over and ... the eli’e-mid-sunùte-plant Incantation formula. |
| 10' | [KA.INIM.MA UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.(DA) 3 ḫu]-⸢ṣab⸣ {<giš}MA.NU> ⸢I₃⸣.UDU ⸢ŠEŠ₂ {sik₂⸣}ḪE₂.⸢ME.DA KIMIN⸣ | Wording (of an incantation) to undo witchcraft: 3 ḫû-šabši-plants, tamarisk, ēdu-soapwort, ṣiktu-plant, EME.DA-plant ditto. |
| 11' | [... ku]-⸢ša₂-pa⸣-ti-⸢ia⸣ | ... Kušapaetiya |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢ŠE⸣.[BAR ...] | ... the ešû-priest |
| 2' | [...] ⸢KI-tim bar⸣-tum e-⸢pu⸣-[uš] | ... the outer steppe I built |
| 3' | [... DUMU].⸢MUNUS⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ DU₃-šu₂ bar-tu₂ [...] | ... the daughter of the great gods, whose creation is exalted |
| 4' | [... ki]-⸢ma⸣ IN.BUBBU la ip-pat₂-til ŠE.⸢BAR⸣ [...] | ... he will not be able to open the courtyard. The temple administrator ... |
| 5' | [...] ⸢KI⸣-tim bar-tum la in-⸢ne₂⸣-[ep-pu-šu₂] | ... of the E-e-tim, the outside will not be performed |
| 6' | [...] ⸢DINGIR⸣.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ DU₃-šu₂ ⸢bar⸣-tu₂ a-⸢mat MUNUS.ḪUL-tim⸣ | ... the great ešītu-priests who built it, the ebarûtu (temple), the a’emat-disease-demon |
| 7' | [... DU₃]-šu₂ bar-tu₂ a-mat MUNUS.⸢ḪUL-tim⸣ [...] ⸢TE⸣-u-⸢ni⸣ | (Sum) ..., the word of a female kid (Akk) The word of an adolescent child |
| 8' | [...] ⸢ia⸣-a-ši ⸢TU₆ EN₂⸣ | ... eya’eaši-plant, Incantation formula. |
| 9' | [KA.INIM.MA UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.(DA) IN.BUBBU] ⸢ta⸣-šar-⸢rap⸣ | [Wording (of an incantation)] to undo witchcraft: eta-ešar-erap-e23 |
| 10' | [... pu-ru-us-se]-⸢e⸣-[ni] | ... Purussêni |
| 11' | [... šak]-⸢na⸣-[at] | ... is poured out |
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