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CMAwR Text 8.12 (Q004228)
Incantation-Ritual
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| Designation | CMAwR Text 8.12 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004228 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Genre | Incantation-Ritual |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EN₂ aṣbat pâki ūtabbil lišānk[i] | Incantation: “I have seized your face, I have carried off your body, |
| 2 | aṣbat qātīki addi qâ ana pî[ki] | I have taken your hand, I have poured my hand into your mouth |
| 3 | aptete pâki attasaḫ lišān p[îki] | I have opened your mouth, I have smeared your mouth |
| 4 | ana lā dabāba ša dibbīya ana [lā] | To the one who does not speak my words |
| 5 | šunnê ša amâtīya ina qibīt | The radiance of my words by the command |
| 6 | telīt Ištar Ea Šamaš Asalluḫ[i TU₆] ⸢EN₂⸣ | The telītu of Ištar, Ea, Šamâ, (and) Asalluḫi. Incantation formula. |
| 7 | DU₃.DU₃.BI ṣalam bēl dabāba ša ṭīdi teppuš imittašu pâšu | Its ritual: You perform ṣalam-prayer to the lord of the sceptre, the one who knows (lit. “knows"), the one whose nose is open, |
| 8 | šumēlšu qinnassu tušaṣbassu | Hand of his horn you make bow down |
| 9 | ina ḫaḫḫu tamaḫḫaṣuššu | with a tamaḫašu-vessel |
| 10 | šumšu ina naglab šumēlīšu tašaṭṭar ana libbi | Whoever in the future, at any time, violates (this agreement), |
| 11 | ḫuppê tašakkan ina maḫar Šamaš tadânšu | You set up a libation bowl before Šamaš. |
| 12 | akalī ṭīdi tarrimšu ina kunuk šu[bê] | (who) eats bread (and) drinks wine with the seal of the hand |
| 13 | u uqnê bābšu tabarr[a]m ina šē[ri] | and uqnû-plant, the seed of the mountain, in the ground |
| 14 | ina askuppat bāb bītīšu tašakkan[(šu) saḫ]lê pappās buqli | You place saḫlû-cress (and) pomegranates on the doorjamb of his house. |
| 15 | ina muḫḫi tasa[rr]aq ṭikmēna ina muḫ[ḫi te]lliḫ | You scatter it on top, you sprinkle a ritual assemblage on top. |
| 16 | qātīšu u šēpīšu ana muḫḫi imessi | He has poured his hand and his blood upon it |
| 17 | šipta sebîšu ana muḫḫi imannu ina asīd im[it]tīšu | He recites the incantation seven times over it. In Asid he prostrates himself. |
| 18 | isêršu-ma [ina] muḫḫi bēl amātīšu izzazzu | He smote him, and on top of his mother stood him |
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