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CMAwR Text 11.2 (Q004240)

Incantation-Ritual

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DesignationCMAwR Text 11.2
IDQ004240
LanguageAkkadian
GenreIncantation-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.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
11.2.1:1[šumma amēlu lū ina eqli lū ina ṣē]ri lū ina qabal āli lū <ina> kīdi u bāmātiIf a man, either in the steppe, or in the street, or inside a city, or outside a house,
11.2.1:2... ... mamma napišti ittīšu ul idabbub... no one shall speak of his life with him
11.2.1:3... ... nasāḫi šūtuqi[ ... ] ... hand-washing ritual
11.2.1:4DU₃.DU₃.BI ina mūši egubbâ [tukān] nignakka gizillâ [egu]bbâ ((ina)) zumur amēli ((šuāti)) tušbāʾ-maIts ritual: At the rising of the egubbâ-demon you set up a nignakku-vessel, a torch (and) an egubba'u-vat. ((In)) the furrow of the land you sit down, and
11.2.1:5i[na šēri] paṭīra tukān sebet akal kunāš[i tašakkan] suluppī sasqâ tasarraq miris dišpi ḫimēti tašakkanIn the morning, if you are to eat, you will place seven loaves of bread. You will scatter a šuluppu-vessel (and) a pile of sasqâ-flour, You will place mirsu-plant and ḫimti-plant.
11.2.1:6adagurra tukān niqâ [tanaqqi] šikara tanaqqi amēla šuāti ina muḫḫi šukbusu tušzāssu mala libbašu ṣabtu idabbubYou are adjured by the adagurru-demon, you speak a supplication, you sing a lament, you say “I am a woman, you sit on top of the šukbusu-drum, you have him speak an arazu prayer
11.2.1:7lumunšu paṭer pašer u mager qibīssu magratHis evil is released, he is freed, and his command is heard.
11.2.1:8EN₂ Šamaš šar šamê u erṣeti šar Igigi u Anunnaki attā-maIncantation: “Šamaš, king of heaven and earth, [king of the Igigi and the Anunnaki], you are.
11.2.1:9[... ...]te nāsiḫ kišpī ruḫê rusê upšāšê lemnūti ša amēlūte..., who dispels witchcraft, magic, evil machinations of mankind
11.2.1:10[nāsīḫ lumni] ša kaššāpi u kaššāpti nāsiḫ mimma lemnu mimma lā ṭābu ša zumrīyaWho dispels the evil of beer and beer, who removes anything evil, anything unfavourable, from my body
11.2.1:11nāsiḫ miḫru ša pānīya anāku annanna mār annanna dušmû pāliḫku(Sum) I am the one who covers my face with a cloth, I am N.N. (Akk) My face is swollen, my face is full of sighs
11.2.1:11a((ina lumun kamūnê š[a ina bītīya] ina šapal abni napl[isanni-ma]))((With regard to the evil that is happening in my house, I have strewn it on the surface of my body, and))
11.2.1:12šapalka akmis si[ssiktaka a]ṣbat ina lumun narūq upšāšê lemnūti šūtiqanni-maI call upon you, I seize your hem, In the evil of the evil machinations, turn to me and
11.2.1:13lumnu šâ[šu ay iṭ]ḫâ ay isniqa ay ikšudanni yâšiMay that evil not come near me, not approach me, never approach me!
11.2.1:14Šamaš ina ūme annê azzīz m[aḫ]arkaŠamaš, at this time I am standing before you,
11.2.1:15ina lumni annê šūtiqanni-ma ((adi ūm balṭāku)) dalīl ilūtīka((Until you are alive,)) may the life of your divinity pass by without me.
11.2.1:16[rabīti] ana nišī rapšāti lu[d]lulMay I sing my great praises to the wide people
11.2.1:17[šumma amēlu ṣalm]ūšu ana arallê pa<q>dū t[uppu ša ar]kīšu šaṭruIf a person's šalmû-plant is placed in a grave, that tablet is written in Uruk

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