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CMAwR Text 8.56 (Q007470)
Incantation-Ritual
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| Designation | CMAwR Text 8.56 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007470 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 8.56.1:1′ | [(...)] ... [...] šalāšīšu taqabbi ... | ... ... of well-being you say ... |
| 8.56.1:2′ | [ina] bīti parsi šalāšat ūmē tušeššebšu nignak [burāši tašakkan-ma šēra muṣlāla] | In the house of the rites of well-being, you sit down, you set up a censer of burāšu-juniper, and the muṣlalu-plant |
| 8.56.1:3′ | u šimētān šipta šalāšīšu tamannu ina rebî ūme ina ki[šādīšu tašakkan ... | And you recite the incantation, “May it be well with you’, in the middle of the day, on his neck you place . |
| 8.56.1:4′ | kayyāna tapaššaš amēlu šū nignakka g[izill]â tušbāʾ[šu-ma ila] | You are adjured by the king, my lord! That is the hand of the torch, the torch that sits on him, and the god |
| 8.56.1:5′ | usalla utnên-ma ṣubāssu išaḫḫaṭ-ma [...] upīš lemutti ul iṭeḫḫēšu | (who) has gathered all of the utnu-demons, has seized his šaḫbat-disease, and ... evil machinations will not arise |
| 8.56.1:6′ | šumma amēlu kišpī eteppušūšu u ša īteneppušūšu lā īde | If witchcraft has been performed against anyone, and he has performed against someone, he does not know |
| 8.56.1:7′ | kīma labirīšu šaṭir bari [ēkal Aššur-bāni-apli šarri rabî] | Like a labiru-demon, a šaṭbir-disease, I fall at the feet of Assurbaniapi, the great king |
| 8.56.1:8′ | šarru dannu šar kiššati šar Māt-Aššur ša Nabû Tašmētu | Strong king, king of the world, lord of the land, son of Nabû, Tašmetu |
| 8.56.1:9′ | rēmu iršûšu-ma t[upšarrūtu nisiq iḫzīšun] | May mercy be upon him, and may scribal art be praised. |
| 8.56.1:10′ | ana širikti iš[rukūš ... | He has poured out a libation bowl into your body |
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