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BM 038198 (P563659)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038198 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563659 |
| Museum no. | BM 038198 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 1' | ......... |
| reverse 2' | ... my.... |
| obverse 8' | Be exorcised, be exorcised, be exorcised, be exorcised |
| obverse 1' | ...,..., |
| reverse 6' | If a man either hand of Itar or hand of a lilû-demon or... |
| obverse 4' | (If) ZI, ZI, ZI, ZI... |
| reverse 8' | May Marduk-akin-umi, son of |
| reverse 3' | ......... |
| reverse 5' | (If) he sees a man, he will not see(?) a man. |
| obverse 9' | It is an incantation of dispelling anything |
| obverse 7' | upper part, lower part, lower part,... |
| obverse 6' | (In) the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the |
| reverse 7' | ... Babylon like its seed(?) |
| obverse 5' | (If) he sees a man: he will experience hardship. |
| reverse 4' | Ahu-aallim, Ammanki |
| obverse 3' | strong wind, strong wind, strong wind... |
| obverse 2' | (No translation possible) |
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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