SAA 10 238. Expelling an Evil Demon (ABL 0024) [from exorcists][via saao/saa10]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) The crown prince is well; Šamaš-šumu-ukin is well. | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | (7) Concerning the rites accompanying the incantation "Verily You are Evil" about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, they are performed to drive out the evil demon and epilepsy. | |
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | (10) As soon as something has afflicted him (= the patient), the exorcist rises and hangs a mouse and a shoot of a thornbush on the vault of the (patient's) door. The exorcist dresses in a red garment and puts on a red cloak. He (holds) a ra[ven on] his right, a falcon on [his left], and po[urs ...] on the censer of the '7 gates,' grasps a [...], holds a t[orch in his han]d, stri[kes] with a [w]hip and recites [the incantation] "Verily You are [Evil]. | |
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | [NÍG].⸢NA*⸣ ša 07 KÁ-MEŠ [x x] | |
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 18b.e. 18 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | [x x i]-ṣa*-bat ⸢zi⸣-[iq-tu] | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | (r 5) [After] he has finished, he makes another exorcist go around the bed of the patient, followed by a censer and a torch, recites the incantation "Begone Evil hultuppu" (going) as far as to the door and (then) conjures the door. | |
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ÉN ḪUL.DÚB È.BA.RA | |
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | (r 11) Until (the demon) is driven out, he does (this) (every) morning and evening. | |
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | (r 13) Concerning (the fact) that on the 13th instant the moon and sun were seen together, there is a ritual to be performed against it. Let Nabû-gamil come and perform it according to my instructions; [he] should also perform (the ritual) for Urad-Ea. | |
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | ||
| r 1717 | ||
| r 1818 | ||
| r 1919 | ||
| r 2020 | ||
| r 2121 |
Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P333976/.