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BM.42283 (ebl:BM.42283)
CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Saĝba, Late Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–100 BCE
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| Designation | BM.42283 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.42283 |
| Museum no. | BM.42283 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Late Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–100 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Exorcistic > Saĝba |
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 5' | The door and the door which are broken up in the cracks and cracks are broken. |
| obverse 6' | The door and the door of the sagkultu-vessel should be loosened (and) they should bind him with a sagkultu-vessel. |
| reverse 4 | he will pay back the debts that he has received from the window. |
| reverse 5 | he shall give to him its neck. |
| obverse 3' | at the gate of the house that they have set up, |
| reverse 7 | May his face become frightened. |
| obverse 9' | as if it were water, may he bring it to him. |
| obverse 1' | the niphu offerings that are to be presented to the niphu people |
| reverse 8 | After he has screamed at the mouth of Uerru |
| obverse 10' | as if it were a good beer, they should slaughter him. |
| reverse 6 | He looked at him as if he were living in the window. |
| obverse 7' | The one who strews a tavern and a tavern, who strews water in a tavern and ditch |
| reverse 2 | he will cross over the foundations of the uru-vessel. |
| reverse 10 | After you have sat down in the window, |
| reverse 1 | as if it were a akku-silver, may they cut him off like a akku-silver. |
| obverse 4' | May they bring him out of the house where he does not go. |
| obverse 2' | May they bring him to the outskirts of the place where he is not seen. |
| obverse 8' | They keep watch over the gate and the nukushû-vessel that are in the akanakku-vessel. |
| reverse 3 | all of it may they cut off your nose. |
| reverse 9 | its mouth may he bind him. |
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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