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CMAwR Text 8.54 (Q007468)
Incantation-Ritual
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| Designation | CMAwR Text 8.54 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007468 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 8.54.1:1′ | ... kirissi [...] | ... a reed ... |
| 8.54.1:2′ | [...] qaqqadīšu [...] ul išaḫḫ[aṭ (...)] | ... his head ... will not be sated |
| 8.54.1:3′ | [šēr]a mu[ṣl]āla šimētān k[īam iqabb]i | In the morning he speaks a song, in the evening he says a prayer |
| 8.54.1:4′ | ((EN₂)) asḫurka uṣaddīk[a] | (Incantation:) “As for you, I am encircling you! |
| 8.54.1:5′ | tādirāt šamê [u erṣeti] | the flood of heaven and earth |
| 8.54.1:6′ | tādirāt šīmti u uṣurti | awe-inspiring radiance and light |
| 8.54.1:7′ | ((tādirāt [... u ...])) tādirāt mīti u balṭi | ((seizing of ... and ...)), seizing of life and death |
| 8.54.1:8′ | tādirāt kišpī ruḫê rusê ((tādirāt īdû l[ā īdû])) | “If witchcraft, magic, sorcery ((If he knows how to know (how to know))), |
| 8.54.1:9′ | ḫūṣ ḫīp libbi ((u gilitta)) ša ina zumrīy[a] šīrī[ya šerʾānīya m]uḫranni | May the anger of my heart ((and)) guilt that is in my body, my spirit, my limbs, overwhelm me! |
| 8.54.1:10′ | attā muḫranni-ma att[ā pidânni] | You are above me, and you have sinned against me |
| 8.54.1:11′ | usuḫšu ina zumrīya u[suḫšu-ma ay isni]qa ay itūra | Remove it from my body so that it may not be cut off, may it not be forgotten! |
| 8.54.1:12′ | šūbiršu Ḫubur ay [issaḫra] | May the Hand of Ḫubur not be smashed |
| 8.54.1:13′ | ina qibīt apkal [ilī] Marduk TU₆ EN₂.E₂.NU.RU | By the command of the sage of the gods, Marduk. Incantation formula. |
| 8.54.1:14′ | ina šalši ūme ina ma[ḫar ...] annâ imannu | In the morning, in the morning he recites this ... |
| 8.54.1:15′ | 14 akal šeguš[ši ... | 14 fattened emmer(s), |
| 8.54.1:16′ | [ina] kišādīšu u ... | Through his wrath and |
Sources & licences
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