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BM.40071 (ebl:BM.40071)
CANONICAL > Magic, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.40071 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.40071 |
| Museum no. | BM.40071 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic |
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 1 | (If) ditto he is dressed in his ordinary soiled stones: |
| reverse 4 | You crush (them) in the middle of the house. |
| reverse 6 | You recite this incantation for the river |
| obverse 1 | Written and checked according to the original. |
| obverse 2 | (If) he is stricken in a man's house: he will die. |
| reverse 14 | (As for) the one who reveres Bel and Bltiya, there is no one to take it away. |
| obverse 12 | You crush date palms (and) date palms in the water of the river. |
| obverse 19 | LUH.HA-plant, kurrinnu-plant, HAR.HAR-plant with beer |
| obverse 10 | For the evil of omens (and) omens, which are present in a man's house, |
| obverse 8 | (If) your left thigh is covered in a mold: in a house.... |
| obverse 13 | (If) a man stands on top of a lapis-lazuli stone and they are water. |
| reverse 9 | the house you have brought in, the reeds of the house to the bed |
| obverse 9 | He shall pay either sheep or donkey in a man's house. |
| reverse 13 | Tablet of ar-Bel, son of um-Bel, descendant of Muezib |
| reverse 3 | he has shaved off (and) shaved off a statue of silver, aromatics |
| obverse 11 | to the na (gauge) and his house he will not approach. |
| obverse 5 | (If) a man's door is broken down (and) he is swollen: he will die. |
| reverse 10 | You mix and mix (the mixture) with juniper. |
| reverse 12 | Written and checked according to its original. |
| obverse 15 | At the opening of the gate of his house you set up a censer (made) of juniper (and) juniper. |
| obverse 7 | the tears of the stars of a man's house |
| obverse 18 | lapis lazuli, abamu-stone, dates, you put (it) on his neck. |
| reverse 2 | For the evil of water (and) evil of water that in a man's house |
| reverse 5 | You mix with a date palm from the north, the house. |
| reverse 8 | (If) ditto, in the night, it is raining: |
| obverse 4 | (If) a pigeon enters a man's house: he will recover. |
| obverse 14 | he will acquire a threshing floor with fig-trees and fig-trees. |
| obverse 6 | ... fire in a man's house |
| obverse 3 | (If) it is red: in a man's house there will be famine. |
| reverse 11 | You send (them) to the river on top of (them). |
| reverse 7 | (If) he is stricken behind him and the evil of that house will be released. |
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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