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CMAwR Text 8.57 (Q007471)
Incantation-Ritual
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| Designation | CMAwR Text 8.57 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007471 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 8.57:1 | [EN₂ Šamaš ša]r šamê u erṣeti | Incantation: O Šamaš, creator of heaven and earth |
| 8.57:2 | [dayyā]n elâti u šaplâti | Judge of upper and lower world |
| 8.57:3 | [bēl mīti] mušteddû balṭi | the lord of life, the one who constantly seeks out life |
| 8.57:4 | [pāṭ]ir kasî muballiṭ mīti | who dispels the witch, who revives the dead |
| 8.57:5 | [lubl]uṭ-ma ša ṣabtanni-ma irteneddânni | May it be released, that which has seized me and kept me awake! |
| 8.57:6 | enenna ṣalamšu ina maḫrīka ušzāz | Now, his balamšu-demon is standing before you |
| 8.57:7 | šārtī sissiktī ina gišrinni ašqulšu addinšu | I have buried my limbs in the cedar wood, I have added to them |
| 8.57:8 | sebet patrī siparri aqīs[su] | I have presented to him seven reed bundles |
| 8.57:9 | ina zumrīya [...] | In my body |
| 8.57:10 | ina zumrīya [...] | In my body |
| 8.57:11 | ina zumrīya [...] | In my body |
| 8.57:12 | ina zumrīya [...] | In my body |
| 8.57:13 | ina [zu]mrīya l[i ...] | May ... in my flesh ... |
| 8.57:14 | [ina zumr]īya l[i ...] | May ... in my body |
| 8.57:15 | [ina zumrīy]a [...] | in my body ... |
Sources & licences
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