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BM 038561 (P563889)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038561 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563889 |
| Museum no. | BM 038561 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 10' | They are slanders, they are slanders, they are slanders. |
| 1' | I constantly sought out good male laborers, good quality sikillu-workers |
| 7' | May you be glad on account of your sin, great doorkeeper of Bidu. |
| 9' | He is well; he is well. |
| 11' | They swore to you by the oath of heaven and earth. |
| 2' | they have been redeemed and they have been released. |
| 13' | ... and Na |
| 6' | May Erekigal, the queen of the wide earth, |
| 8' | May your radiance, the vizier of the underworld, the great god Namtar |
| 12' | ... the king, the day by the life of |
| 3'b | who before them have sent..., |
| 5' | May they bless her! Incantation: O fierce one, Ea, exorcist. |
| 4' | They have sworn to the not lord of the gods. |
| 3'a | For the one who makes the street shine |
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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