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BM 033862 (P562456)
Incantation; Ritual, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 033862 |
|---|---|
| ID | P562456 |
| Museum no. | BM 033862 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation; Ritual |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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) |
|---|---|
| 18 | ... I turned into Uruk. I turned and to Nippur |
| 23 | ... evil in his... house? |
| 16 | ... ditto Ium, lord of the rites |
| 4 | You place in your hands the meal of the evening, the anzahhu-feast... your forehead. |
| 12 | Incantation: Nisaba, queen of the rites, word of the great gods. |
| 1 | Incantation: When... an incantation for you on a favorable day... |
| 10 | You pound... on your left foot. If a dog has come out |
| 27 | ... tamarisk, juniper, water |
| 9 | You recite the incantation over you. |
| 6 | You place... of juniper, flour on top of a censer. You libate beer. |
| 30 | his brother and son |
| 29 | ...... Mushezibu |
| 22 | a scepter of truth that cannot be changed, his command he sat down. |
| 3 | ......... |
| 28 | Written and checked according to its original. |
| 11 | ... he will pay you x homers. |
| 2 | Where lightning flashes, flesh of an ox... |
| 8 | ... your... three times. |
| 20 | ... to them, may a favorable word be sent to my mouth. |
| 13 | Who soothes the angry gods, the angry goddess, |
| 17 | ... the incantation priest of the son of |
| 19 | ... may he make a favorable decision to their mouths. |
| 5 | You strew a libation bowl of oxen, and between your oxen... and |
| 15 | May my angry heart be sated with my mouth. |
| 21 | ... a lamentation singer, a lamentation singer, a lamentation singer, |
| 14 | May my (personal) god, the angry (personal) goddess |
| 24 | the word of his command I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, |
| 25 | May (my) utukku-demon be established for him, and may my word be dispersed for me. |
| 7 | Incantation: O Nisaba, you recite 3 times the incantation. |
| 26 | May the good du (and) the good lamassu stand with me. |
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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