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BM.64364 (ebl:BM.64364)
CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Namburbi, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.64364 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.64364 |
| Museum no. | BM.64364 |
| Collection | Sippar |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Namburbi |
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' | [...] may [...] be everlasting for you. |
| obverse 6' | ... silver, gold, in wool, at his left side, |
| obverse 5' | This is (the case) that the... of gold is placed on his head. |
| obverse 13' | May his evil not approach me and my house, may it not approach me, may it not approach me. |
| obverse 7' | You put (it) on the plant of a garden and that man will be good and you will make him speak in front of ama. |
| obverse 9' | The upper and lower part is elevated. |
| obverse 19' | In your heart Ea, the king of the Apsu, established her dwelling. |
| reverse 5' | ... of juniper... with udu and his property |
| obverse 21' | You, the flood, before the flood, the radiance |
| obverse 26' | May his evil... be placed in my body, and may he decree your fate daily. |
| reverse 10' | On the seventh day, on his neck, you strew evil. |
| obverse 10' | May ama, the dead man, be sated with the weapon of your hands! |
| obverse 4' | ... bread, tamarisk, 1 barleycorn of silver, silver, property in front of the river |
| reverse 3' | May the evil of that evil not approach her. May life be granted to her. |
| obverse 1' | You set up a censer. In the censer you set up a censer. |
| obverse 20' | he swore, and he swore an awe-inspiring brow. |
| reverse 9' | ilba-stone, agate, ditto (and) 9 stones for this |
| reverse 4' | You recite this 3 times and the man will drink water. |
| obverse 15' | And as for me, may my praises be sweetened for eternity. |
| obverse 16' | This is a third time. The incantation priest takes the hand of a man. |
| obverse 11' | ama, I have gone to you, ama, the shrines, and ama, I have received your garments. |
| obverse 25' | May the evil of me and my house not approach, may it not approach, may it not approach me, may it not approach me. |
| obverse 22' | The wisdom of Ea and Asalluhi presented to me, and the verdicts have been given to me. |
| reverse 7' | You set up a censer and you sit down. That man will go straight to his house. |
| obverse 12' | Be present in this ram, place in it |
| obverse 8' | Incantation: O ama, judge of heaven and underworld, lord of truth and justice |
| obverse 18' | In your akitu-shrine you will be sated. |
| obverse 2' | You set up a libation bowl of honey and butter. |
| obverse 23' | I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, whose (personal) god (is) so-and-so, whose (personal) goddess (is) so-and-so, whose (personal) goddess is so-and-so, |
| obverse 3' | You set up a censer of juniper. |
| obverse 24' | ... the evil..., this one is to be taken away |
| obverse 14' | May his evil be present in my body. May my days be long! |
| reverse 6' | he will fall into the river and that man will die. |
| reverse 2' | By the command of Ea (and) Asalluhi, the evil of that one,..., |
| obverse 17' | You are the one who built the river, whatever its name. |
| reverse 8' | lapis lazuli, agate, papparmnu-stone, papparmnu-stone |
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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