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BM 038946 (P564117)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038946 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564117 |
| Museum no. | BM 038946 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 4' | whose brickwork is perfected with gold |
| reverse 6' | ... alallu-stone, sasu-stone, |
| reverse 8' | ... agate, engigû-stone, muiti-stone |
| obverse 13' | the crown, the divine crown of the shepherd of Saeg |
| reverse 17' | ... the evil sign |
| obverse 16' | Agu'u, which in all the heavens... |
| obverse 5' | She raised her head towards heaven and raised her up in the land |
| reverse 10' | ... exalted... of stone, baltu-stone, lamassu-stone, royal stone... |
| obverse 2' | The pure rites he smote him, he smote him, |
| obverse 6' | ... his head... in the land... |
| reverse 2' | ... stone |
| reverse 3' | ...,...,..., |
| reverse 7' | ... and sandû-stone, kasi-stone, marhalu-stone, |
| reverse 12' | the holy breast of the king, to the right and left |
| reverse 16' | .......................... |
| reverse 18' | ... not good... with... |
| obverse 1' | He made the pure water grow there, he made it purify. |
| reverse 9' | ..., lamassu-stone, hamanu-stone, Anzauutu-stone |
| reverse 13' | For the pure heart of the king, to the utterance of the king, |
| obverse 8' | may he make it shine like heaven. |
| obverse 7' | may the king, the son of his divinity, be established like heaven. |
| reverse 14' | Kusu, the exalted temple administrator of Enlil, he made perfect |
| reverse 5' | ...... awe-inspiring radiance...... |
| obverse 9' | May the evil tongue come out towards it. |
| obverse 10' | It is the wording of a 16th throne |
| obverse 11' | Incantation: His fierce crown, whose aura emerges from the holy heaven |
| obverse 4' | before ama in the pure place he established, and |
| reverse 11' | The stone of their mouth is torn out, they are torn out. |
| reverse 15' | he uttered grievous utterances. |
| obverse 14' | I am the one who makes the black-headed people bow down at the head |
| obverse 12' | Whose radiance is exalted in the pure heavens, |
| obverse 3' | he set up in front of ama. |
| obverse 15' | ... the crown of heaven and earth,... to heaven and earth |
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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