Šaziga ritual fragment (Sm 1514)
Short Neo-Assyrian fragment from Nineveh of the ŠÀ.ZI.GA series for restoring a man's potency.
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| Designation | Sm.1514 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | Sm.1514 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Medical > Šaziga |
| Provenience | Nineveh |
| Findspot | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
| CDLI no. | P425954 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 11 (11 with machine English) |
Machine draft. English generated by model atf-en-best-v2 (montycrypto/atf-to-english) (version d871547f92875415dbbc7f4a37fd65e35f8ac97d) on 2026-10-05, line by line from the ATF. Not a scholarly translation.
The transliteration is not reproduced here because the source (electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich) is not marked as republishable; read it at the source link above.
| Line | English (machine draft) |
|---|---|
| 1 | If a man... to his wife and.... |
| 2 | he will go to a pregnant woman and... |
| 3 | kabullu-plant, mru-plant |
| 4 | with beer... |
| 5 | After it, you libate strong wine, and it is good. |
| 6 | If ditto a allallallu-plant, kiu-plant, seeds of ab |
| 7 | hound's-tongue-plant with beer |
| 8 | After it, you libate wine and it will be good. |
| 9 | If ditto a plant, ankitu-plant, hound's-tongue-plant, gypsum |
| 10 | You strew (it) with oil, make a flour/incense-offering, place it on his neck, and it will be good. |
| 11 | ...-plant |