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BM.38057 (ebl:BM.38057)

CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Compendium; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Saggigameš; CANONICAL > School Tablet, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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DesignationBM.38057
IDebl:BM.38057
Museum no.BM.38057
CollectionBabylon
LanguageAkkadian; Sumerian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreCANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Compendium; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Saggigameš; CANONICAL > School Tablet

Machine English (draft)

Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

LineMachine English (draft)
obverse 1'......
reverse 7As soon as in the evening he has seen it,
obverse 4'May the good edu and the good lamma priests stand with him.
obverse 3'let the evil udug and ala demon stand outside.
reverse 6he (Ningirsu) has sworn as if (it was) a robbery
reverse 1that man will kill
reverse 2like a liar in the midst of a frightened man he shall return.
obverse 2'... : he should be his judge
reverse 8......
reverse 3he is a man like that of the heart.
obverse 5'......
reverse 4he will cross over it like a risen heart.
reverse 5Like that of his stomach, he is constantly ill.

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