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BM 038479 (P563837)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038479 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563837 |
| Museum no. | BM 038479 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 9' | ... may they be brought to me and... |
| reverse 2 | ubû-stone, ubû-stone, |
| reverse 10 | ...... |
| obverse 5' | or a lilû-demon or a lilû-demon |
| obverse 6' | ... after me you recite... and do not repeat. |
| reverse 4 | ..., papparnû-stone, agate |
| obverse 7' | ... Ea, Asalluhi |
| obverse 4' | or Lamatu, or Lamatu, |
| reverse 5 | ... carnelian |
| obverse 8' | .... may they be released and... |
| reverse 3 | ... the sea, haltu-stone, (and) ghee |
| reverse 11 | ... heaven and earth |
| reverse 1 | Its ritual: You strew kagina stone (and)... stone. |
| obverse 2' | ... or an incantation priest |
| reverse 9 | ... you recite this incantation over you. |
| reverse 6 | ... of a stone weight of 7 talents |
| reverse 8 | ... these stones you put. |
| obverse 3' | .... a curse |
| reverse 7 | ... alabaster, silver, gold |
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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