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BM.39878 (ebl:BM.39878)
CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft > Maqlû, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.39878 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.39878 |
| Museum no. | BM.39878 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Anti-witchcraft > Maqlû |
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.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse 5' | Incantation: "As for the Ipru, their nadtu-disease, the one who slanders the wicked, the one who slanders the wicked, |
| reverse 7' | ... joy.. |
| reverse 2' | ... joy, who goes... |
| reverse 8' | ... may I see you... |
| obverse 6' | They shaved my mouth. |
| reverse 4' | Wording for... |
| obverse 2' | Because he is a woman, he has sent me a message, he has sent me a message. |
| reverse 1' | ... who does not listen to... |
| reverse 3' | May Gilgame, the hero, make their lordship happy. |
| obverse 1' | From the threshing floor to the threshing floor and the namritu offerings |
| reverse 6' | ... the lamassu-demon, the lamassu-demon, the ahzu-demon,... |
| obverse 3' | My (personal) god and my (personal) goddess make him stand over me |
| obverse 4' | As to my witnesses, I am a widow. |
| obverse 5' | The endk-priest who does not fear her husband and mother |
Sources & licences
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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