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BM 039197 (P564264)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039197 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564264 |
| Museum no. | BM 039197 |
| 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 3' | I want to... Asalluhi |
| obverse 9' | May he take gold from your pure hands and |
| obverse 7' | ... who created me from the pure place... |
| obverse 4' | ... may he not make... pleasant. |
| obverse 1' | Let me bring... for you |
| reverse 2' | May the good udug bring it into it, and may it not bring it into it. |
| obverse 8' | When you have received your pure hands |
| reverse 8' | The tail of the house is removed |
| reverse 4' | in the pure approach of Marduk |
| obverse 6' | to be brought out from the cultivated land |
| reverse 3' | May good things enter, and may evil be released. |
| obverse 10' | ...... |
| reverse 1' | ... son of Eridu |
| obverse 5' | the guarantor of Eridu |
| reverse 7' | ... a scepter of radiance, a scepter of evil, |
| reverse 6' | The evil demon, the evil demon, the evil demon |
| obverse 2' | .... without you |
| reverse 5' | ... (means) : hand of Nina-ahu-ibni |
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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