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BM 038772 (P564009)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038772 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564009 |
| Museum no. | BM 038772 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | Ditto: "Remove the debts that a man has to pay attention to." |
| 5' | You are the one who stands at the quay of the quay of the man who stands at the quay |
| 11' | You are the one who does not know the evil ala and siskur prayer, who does not have a rival. |
| 1' | May you see the evil ala-demon of Utu! |
| 2' | (If) ditto, which cannot be seen with ama, |
| 4' | ... ditto, which a man in a house in a house resides, |
| 10' | Ditto, which is large above a man and as if it were raining, |
| 9' | May you be like a destructive ala demon living in a man’s house. |
| 13' | I am the one who destroys the ala and barley like a boat |
| 3' | You are the ala priest, the evil ala priestess, the reed bed of a man who has sinned against you |
| 12' | Ditto — which cannot be changed — which cannot be changed — |
| 8' | Ditto: O god, the one who goes at the side of the night, who does not fear me, |
| 7' | May the evil ala-demon, the evil-doer of a black-headed man, not approach him with fear. |
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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