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KAL 02, 032 (P480943)

Ritual and liturgical, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation	KAL 02, 032
ID	P480943
Museum no.	VAT 13711
Collection	Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Genre	Ritual and liturgical
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'	[...] x [...]
2'	[...] ⸢EN⸣ ṣer-ri	... the lord of the netherworld
3'	[... kiš]-pi ⸢pa-aš₂⸣-ru₃	... witchcraft and sorcery
4'	[...] x-x-x be	... ...
5'	[...] ⸢NU TE⸣-šu₂	... ešunu-plant with it
6'	[...] x-x-x-x-x E₂ NA ta-⸢sar₂⸣-raq	... ... of a man's house you will rub.
7'	[...] ti-⸢šu⸣ KUŠ ⸢MAŠ₂.GAL⸣	... Ti-ešu-e23
8'	[...] x ana E₂ ⸢NA tal-lak⸣	... you will go to the bedroom.
9'	[...] x-x-x-x-x-x [x-x-x] x [x]
10'	[...] x-x [x-x-x-x-x]
b.e.
1	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x ZU₂.LUM].⸢MA {zi₃}EŠA⸣ [DUB-aq]	You strew dates and ēšu-flour.
2	[NINDA.I₃.DE₂.A LAL₃ I₃.NUN.NA GAR]-⸢an⸣ NIG₂.NA {šim}LI GAR-⸢an⸣ [KAŠ.SAG BAL-qi₂]	You set up a censer of juniper. You libate first-rate beer.
3	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x] ⸢IL₂⸣-ši-ma ŠID-tu₂ an-⸢ni⸣-[tu₂ ŠID-nu]	... eliši-plant, this is our reed.
r
1	[x-x-x-x-x-x {dug}LA.ḪA].AN ša ⸢nap-ṭa⸣ tu-mal-lu-⸢u⸣	You fill a laḫban-vessel of naptu-plant
2	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x] ⸢KA₂⸣-šu₂-nu ina {⸢na₄}KIŠIB⸣ ta-ka-nak šum-ma ⸢ša₂⸣	You will seal their gate with carnelian. If the gate
3	[DU₃-šu₂ ZU x-x-x-x ina I].⸢DIB⸣ KA₂-šu₂ te-⸢qe₂-ber⸣ šum-ma ša₂ DU₃-šu₂ NU ZU	Its ritual: ... in the entrance of his gate you recite. If that which is done does not know
4	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x] x ana UGU ⸢e⸣-pi-ši-šu₂-nu i-tur-ru	they will return to their epišunu-house
5	[EN₂ {d}UTU x-x-x-x-x muš-te]-⸢šer⸣ DINGIR ⸢u LU₂⸣ at-ta-ma {d}UTU an-nu-ti NU.MEŠ	Incantation: O Šamaš, ..., who guides the way, O god, you are the man, these are the dead.
6	[ša kaššāpīya u kaššāptīya attā] ZU-šu₂-nu-ti-⸢ma⸣ ana-ku NU ⸢ZU⸣-šu₂-nu-ti ša₂ kiš-pi	You are my beer and my beer, I am not their beer!
7	[ruḫê rusê upšāšê lemnūti NU] DU₁₀.GA.MEŠ nap-ša₂-⸢ša₂⸣-a-te na-aš₂-pa-ra-a-te	evil magic, evil sorcery (and) evil machinations, našparātu-songs
8	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x DI].⸢BAL⸣.A ZI.KU₅.RU.DA ⸢KA.DAB.BE₂.DA ša₂-ne⸣-e	... ebullû-plant, ‘cutting-of-the-throat’ magic, kadabbētu-plant
9	[ṭēmi x-x-x-x-x-x-x x]-ni u₃ EŠ-⸢u₂⸣-ni ina nar₃-⸢bi⸣ {[d}DIŠ MAN ABZU]	“If ... and EŠv₂-e-ni’s in the nar-e₃ of Enlil, king of the Apsu
10	[upšāšê ša Marduk UŠ₁₁-šu₂-nu] ⸢UŠ₁₁⸣-šu₂-nu UŠ₁₁-šu₂-nu NIG₂.AK.A.MEŠ-šu₂-[nu x-x-x-(x)-šu₂]-⸢nu⸣	The machinations of Marduk, their enemies, their foes, their weapons
11	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x zi-ku₅-ru]-⸢de⸣-šu₂-nu ⸢u₃ ši⸣-ni-it ṭe₃-me-šu₂-nu [x-x-x-x]	... their ‘cutting-of-the-throat’ ritual.
12	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x li]-⸢iṣ⸣-ba-tu₂-⸢šu₂-nu-ti⸣ ar-kat₃ ep-[še-te-šu₂-nu]	... let them ... their deeds.
13	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x x]-⸢su⸣-nu-⸢ti⸣ li-x [x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x]	...-enu-etī-e3
14	[x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x] x-x [x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x]

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