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BM.40511 (ebl:BM.40511)
CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Muššuʾu, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.40511 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.40511 |
| Museum no. | BM.40511 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic; CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Muššuʾu |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse? 9' | By Utu, the foremost of the gods |
| reverse? 8'a | ox yoke |
| reverse? 4'a | u-titi on a boat like : he will be seized. |
| reverse? 8'b | He became frightened and frightened; he did not know. |
| reverse? 7'a | ... like a bull |
| reverse? 3'a | u-sil-sil |
| obverse? 7' | ama, foremost of the gods, |
| reverse? 5'b | The amau-demon(?), like a lion, writes |
| obverse? 6'b | Just as the hand of a gazelle is full of fetters, |
| reverse? 7'b | The great one, like(?) a pig, screams |
| reverse? 6'b | The iu-demon will be like a lion. |
| obverse? 8' | to ama foremost of the gods, |
| reverse? 2'b | He sat on the ground like a mountain. |
| reverse? 4'b | He strews a strewn wall like a hoe. |
| reverse? 1'a | u-sealed like a gusty wind |
| obverse? 3'b | May that one like that one be reconciled. |
| reverse? 2'a | u-disease |
| obverse? 2'b | That man, as if it were my fault, may he live. |
| reverse? 3'b | (If) he is stricken (with) reeds(?): he will die |
| obverse? 2'a | and its people like butter oil |
| obverse? 3'a | ... may he make grow. |
| reverse? 6'a | high-quality ghee |
| reverse? 1'b | a reed like a qû-reed he smote |
| reverse? 5'a | u-ma asig(?) |
| obverse? 6'a | he will be sated like bronze. |
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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