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BM 038963 (P564126)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038963 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564126 |
| Museum no. | BM 038963 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse? col 1' 8' | By the life of Ninurta, heir of Earra, heir of Earra, be exorcised. |
| obverse? col 1' 4' | A ram, the evil udug, the evil ala, the evil reed, the evil ghost, the evil reed, the evil digir, the evil makim-demon |
| obverse? col 1' 10' | (If) Itar, lady of the lands, decrees his name: |
| obverse? col 1' 5' | Be exorcised in heaven, be exorcised in earth! |
| obverse? col 1' 12' | As long as he lives, he will not live for him. |
| obverse? col 1' 7' | Beloved of Ninlil, lady of all the lands! |
| obverse? col 1' 6' | By Enlil be exorcised by the life of Enlil! |
| obverse? col 1' 11' | Now, as a man’s lord |
| obverse? col 1' 2' | the upper part (of the temple) is a lamassu-snake, the evil-doer |
| obverse? col 1' 9' | By Inana, queen of all the lands, be exorcised(?) |
| obverse? col 1' 3' | it is seven (times) in the sky it is seven (times) in the underworld it is seven (times) |
| obverse? col 1' 1' | the upper part (of the temple) is evil. |
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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