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CMAwR Text 7.27 (Q007446)
Incantation-Ritual
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| Designation | CMAwR Text 7.27 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007446 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 7.27:1′ | [...] ... ša₂ ša₂ ... ... | ... ... of ... |
| 7.27:2′ | ... [...] upaqqidūʾi[nni ...] | ... seized me ... |
| 7.27:3′ | kaššāp kaššāpte ēpiš ēpi[šte ...] | The warlock, the witch, the craftsman, the ... |
| 7.27:4′ | ša upīšī lemnūti šarqiš īpušū[ni ...] | The one who performs evil sorcery against me |
| 7.27:5′ | inanna ṣalmīšunu abnī-ma ina maḫar E[a Šamaš u Asalluḫi ušzīssunūti] | Inanna, I recite the incantation, and in the presence of Ea, Šamaš, and Asalluḫi I raise them up. |
| 7.27:6′ | ina dīnīka ṣīri ša lā uttakkaru ina qibīt[īka ṣīrti ša lā innennû] | By your judgment, which cannot be changed, by your command, which can not be altered, |
| 7.27:7′ | ina tî ša Asalluḫi [ina šipti ša Ea] | By the water of Asalluḫi, by the hand of Ea |
| 7.27:8′ | ina qibīti ša ilīya u ištarīya kišpīšun[u ruḫêšunu rusêšunu (...)] | By the command of my god and my goddess, may witchcraft, magic, sorcery |
| 7.27:9′ | ana muḫḫīšunu litūrū-ma yâši [lippaṭ]rūʾi[nni] | May they look upon me, may they release me, |
| 7.27:10′ | ina ṣīt pîkunu kabittu ša lā ušt[ep]ell[u] | By your august command that cannot be changed |
| 7.27:11′ | ana Anunn[ak]i Ereškigal Bidu idugal erṣeti p[i]qdāšun[ūti] | To the Anunnaki, Ereškigal, Bidu, the gatekeeper of the four quarters |
| 7.27:12′ | [itti mītūti] li[mmanû] itti balṭūti lā immannû | May they see each other with a ghost, may they not see one another with sulphur. |
| 7.27:13′ | [... k]iš[pūšunu ruḫ]ûšunu upšāšû<šu>nu lemnūtu ana zumrīya ay iṭḫâni | May the evil machinations and sorcery not approach my body! |
| 7.27:14′ | [lubluṭ lušlim-m]a dalī[l]īkunu ludlul | Let me live (and) become healthy, let me sing your praises! |
| 7.27:15′ | [KA.INIM].MA UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.RU.DA.KAM | It is the wording of a spell for undoing witchcraft. |
| 7.27:16′ | [DU₃.DU₃.BI ana maḫar] Ea Šamaš u Asalluḫi paṭīra tukān šalāš kurummāti akal kunāši tašakkan | Its ritual: In the presence of Ea, Šamaš and Asalluḫi, you set up an offering table. |
| 7.27:17′ | [sul]uppī sasqâ tasarraq miris dišpi ḫimēti tašakkan šalāšat laḫannī | You scatter sasqû-plant (and) mirsu-plant. You set up a ḫimētu-vessel. The well-being of my illness |
| 7.27:18′ | [mê ši]kara tumallā-ma tašakkan nignakka pēmti [aš]āgi tumallā-ma ištēn ina erēni [(...)] | You fill with water the šukaru-vessel and you place it. You fill the opening of the reed-bed with water and ... in the cedar ... |
| 7.27:19′ | [ištēn ina] burāši ištēn ina qēmi tasa[rraq ana Šamaš] mê sasqî tanaqqi | You dry (and) pound thyme in a cypress bowl, you pour it into a hot water vessel. |
| 7.27:20′ | ana Ea mê erēni tanaqqi [ana Asalluḫi] mê burāši tanaq[qi] | For Ea, you pour cedar water; for Asalluḫi, you libate cypress water. |
| 7.27:21′ | ana ilīšu u ištarīšu nignakka {⸢šim⸣}[... t]asarraq šikar[a tanaqqi] | To his god and his goddess, your torch, ešim-e... you strew, you pour a libation bowl. |
| 7.27:22′ | ana Gilgāmeš um[mara baḫra t]atab[bak] | You pour a libation bowl over Gilgamesh. |
| 7.27:23′ | 12 akal kunāši miris dišp[i ḫimēti tašakkan nig]nak [burāši tašakkan] | 12 akal-plants, miris-plant, ḫimētu-plant you put in place; nignak-soapwort you put into place. |
| 7.27:24′ | šikara tanaqqi ina šumēl [Gilgāmeš ṣalam Ḫ]umuṭ-t[abal tašakkan] | You pour a libation bowl. On the day of the šalāmu-festival, you set up Ḫumut-tabal. |
| 7.27:25′ | ... [...] ... [mê kaṣûti ši]kar labti tana[qqi] | ... ... you libate water of the warlock's libation vessel, beer of the labtu-vessel. |
| 7.27:26′ | [ṣalam kaššāpi u kaššāpti zikari] u sinništi šina ṣalmī lipê šina ṣalmī iškūr[i] | Release my warlock and witch, my thief and my woman, release my sorcerer and sorceress, |
| 7.27:27′ | [šina ṣalmī kupsi šina ṣalmī it]tê šina ṣalmī bīni šina ṣalmī e[rēni] | a šuʾammu-plant, kupsu-juniper, a sapling, an āṣalmu-tree, (and) a cedar tree |
| 7.27:28′ | [šina ṣalmī līši ša qēm] ennēni šina ṣalmī ṭīdi šina ṣalmī bappiri | “The šalmu-demon is the one who holds the hand of the mountain’s horns, the s[cv]almu (demon) is the tidbīdi-mongoose, the bapiru-disease, |
| 7.27:29′ | [... ana maḫar] Šamaš tašakkan-ma šiptu annītu šalāšīšu [tamannu] | You place ... before Šamaš and you recite this incantation over his well-being. |
| 7.27:30′ | kī[ma tamtanû ina] maḫar Šamaš kīam iqabbi | Like the sea, in the presence of Šamaš he speaks as follows: |
| 7.27:31′ | Šamaš aš[kun maḫark]a ṣalam ēpiš[īy]a u muštēpištīya | Šamaš, I have set up a supreme altar for you, turn back my work and my sorcery! |
| 7.27:32′ | ana Ḫum[uṭ-t]abal ša qaqq[ar]i piqissunūti t[ab]a[l] | You pour out a libation bowl on the ground. |
| 7.27:33′ | mê ana Ḫum[uṭ]-tabal aqq[i ...] ... [...] | I libate water to Ḫumuttabal ... |
| 7.27:34′ | Ḫumuṭ-t[a]bal ... Šamaš [...] | Ḫumut-tabal Šamaš |
| 7.27:35′ | ṣa[lam] ēpišīya [u muštēpištīya ...] | The image of my deeds and my incantation(s) |
| 7.27:36′ | annâ iqabb[i ...] | This is what he says: … |
| 7.27:37′ | taqabbīšunū[ti ...] | You speak ... |
| 7.27:38′ | ... ... |
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