(o i 1) Incantation: Nisaba, friendly queen,

(o i 2) Creator of god and king and mankind,

(o i 3) Net of the Anunnaku, the fierce gods,

(o i 4) [She who reconciles] the angry god, the angry goddess.

(o i 5) [Let] me send you to (my) angry god, (my) angry goddess,

(o i 6) Whose hearts are [...] (and) displeased, (and) who are angry with [me].

(o i 7) Reconcile the angry god, the angry goddess with me!

(o i 8) May my faults be undone, my sins be [...].

(o i 9) May my deficiencies be forgotten.

(o i 10) May my obligation be absolved, my magical constraint come undone.

(o i 11) May the absolving of my obligation be decreed. ... [...].

(o i 12) [...] the praise of your divinity (and) I will make [...] visible.

(o i 13) Wording of a šuʾillakku-prayer to Nisaba.

(o i 14) "The angry [god] will relent" is to be recited [in front of] maṣhatu-flour.

(o i 16) Incantation: Goddess of abundance, Nisaba, queen, daughter of Ea,

(o i 17) Nisaba, queen of great wisdom,

(o i 18) [...] of Nirah, father of the gods of the pantheon,

(o i 19) Bride of Ellil, king of the Igigu, who decrees fates,

(o i 20) Bride of Ellil, adviser, king of the pantheon of heaven and earth, who decrees fates,

(o i 21) Fertile, luxuriant mother, great princess, queen Ninlil.

(o i 22) You are the giver of life to the people : pure lady among the great gods,

(o i 23) Provisioner of the shrines, carer of the chapels,

(o i 24) [...] ... sublime drawings,

(o i 25) [...] and dwellings,

(o i 26) [...] ... praises.

(o i 27) You are the one who doubled the yield for Ellil.

(o i 28) You made the meadows increase for him by ...,

(o i 29) And joy ....

(o i 30) They are honoured and they are unrivalled. They have no opponent apart from you.

(o i 31) ... and a cry are yours.

(o i 32) To render a judgement, decide a verdict, cancel ..., (and) bring into being good health - you.

(o i 34) You honour god and king, goddess (and) queen. You appoint to kingship.

(o i 35) Without you, people would not come to have sexual intercourse with one another, living beings would not be created.

(o i 36) All the black-headed people, as many as were created, whatever their names, are yours.

(o i 37) Those of good fortune will be supplied copiously by you with lamassu-water of the temple.

(o i 38) The holder of their bonds, she who lightens their incense offerings,

(o i 39) She who reconciles the angry god, the angry goddess,

(o i 40) The reviver of living beings, are you.

(o i 41) You love Anu, Ellil, Ea, Belet-ili, the earth that gave birth to you, (and) the heavens that brought you up.

(o i 43) Intercede for me to the gods who .... Speak kindness.

(o i 44) May the heart of the enjoyable, the furious, ... the resplendent, worry about me.

(o i 45) Reconcile the displeased god, the angry goddess that they decide my petition ... for me because of (my) prayer, prostration and nose-gesture.

(o i 48) Wording. He will light a fire in a censer for his god. He will carry ... to ... and strew (it) in the censer and he will strew (it) for the god of his heart.

(o i 51) Incantation: O Ištar, lady of the cities, creator of mankind,

(o i 52) She who gathers to herself the divine powers that are with her; who is your rival?

(o i 53) You are the strongest among the gods. Your name is shining.

(o i 54) Men make your heroic acts glorious.

(o i 55) Your great achievements are made apparent, surpassing all the gods.

(o i 56) Your cellas, your temples - they pay attention to you.

(o i 57) Anu, your father, determined a destiny for you,

(o i 58) He extolled your name [in] the assembly of the Igigu,

(o i 59) He called your name [in] the heavens (and on) earth.

(o i 60) You hold their nose-rope of humankind in your right hand.1

(o i 61) Ellil gave you the kingship of heaven and earth.

(o i 62) The gods who stand (before you) - (their) shrines are taken.

(o i 63) The kings are kneeling before you; they pay attention to you,

(o i 64) [...] of righteousness and justice are established before you,

(o i 65) [...] a purified tamarisk before you,

(o i 66) [...] pure [...] ..., a strewn offering of myrtle,

(o i 67) [...] pure [...],

(o ii 1) I have erected ... [...] ... before you.

(o ii 2) I have supplied copious pure strewn offerings for the gods of the rites.

(o ii 3) My left hand is resting on a throwing-stick that dispels all illnesses.

(o ii 4) I am lifting Nisaba, who reconciles the angry god, in my right hand.

(o ii 5) Be merciful to me, my lady! Accept my supplication!

(o ii 6) Surround me, my lady! Judge my case forthwith!

(o ii 7) Your light is bright. May (my) body be cleansed of evil.

(o ii 8) May the gods of the rites drive away the illness of my body.

(o ii 9) May all (my) illnesses be dispelled.

(o ii 10) May my sin be undone. May I sing your praise.

(o ii 11) Wording of a šuʾillakku-prayer to Ištar.

(o ii 12) Its ritual: Either in the evening or in the morning hours, when Ištar is bright in the sky, before Ištar, you sweep the roof. You sprinkle pure water. You set up an offering table. On top (of it), you strew 7 rations of emmer (and) 12 haṣbu-pots each of dates (and) saskû-flour. You put down a cake (made) from honey (and) butter.

(o ii 18) You set up an adagurru-libation vessel. You fill 7 lahannu-flasks with beer (and) put (them) down at the side of the ritual assemblage. You strew a censer (full) of burašu-juniper. You fill 1 lahannu-flask with milk and libate (it). You fill 1 lahannu-flask with beer and libate (it). You fill 1 lahannu-flask with wine and libate (it).

(o ii 22) You squeeze out fruit from the orchard around the ritual assemblage. You sprinkle filtered oil. You lustrate the purification rite.

(o ii 24) You repeatedly throw small heaps of flour to the right and to the left of the ritual assemblage. You step back 2 cubits and squeeze out fruit from the orchard on the ground.

(o ii 26) You put down 7 and 7 for the gods of the rites on the right and on the left on top of the plants from the orchard. You set up 7 censers with burašu-juniper. You libate beer.

(o ii 29) You step back and he prostrates himself. You move the censer (and) the torch past the patient and he raises a throwing-stick in his left (hand and) maṣhatu-flour in his right. He stands in front of the ritual assemblage and you make him recite the incantation "Ištar, lady of the cities" three times and you clear away the ritual assemblages and god and king will reconcile with him. As long as he lives, nothing evil will approach him.

(o ii 35) Alternatively, according to the wording of another tablet: Its ritual: before Ištar, you sweep the roof. You sprinkle pure water. You set up an offering table. You put down 3 haṣbu-pots each. You strew a censer (full) of burašu-juniper. This will soothe the wrath of god and goddess with him.

(o ii 39) Incantation: O Tašmetu, queen, good tutelary goddess,

(o ii 40) Honoured one of the pure heavens, whose command cannot be changed,

(o ii 41) Bride of Esaggil, the temple of celebrations, beloved of Ezida,

(o ii 42) Wife of Nabu, the carer of the world, lord of the universe,

(o ii 43) She is the greatest [...] the gods, ... [...] ...,

(o ii 44) [...] ... whose brilliance is bright.

(o ii 45) ... Nisaba, she is queen, greatest of the palace, fate [(...)].

(o ii 46) The abundance of her creation is made to flourish.

(o ii 47) The king who reveres her, rules over the totality.

(o ii 48) You give him days of old age, a reign of abundance.

(o ii 49) She makes equal the fates of the man upon whom you gaze favourably.

(o ii 50) You present him with many sons and descendants.

(o ii 51) She makes the very low junior greater than a prince.

(o ii 52) Since distant times, she places the powerless (and) feeble to [...].

(o ii 53) She is strong, goddess, queen and lady of the fates, Tašmetu, [...].

(o ii 54) As you are very great, my lady, I have turned to [your divinity],

(o ii 55) And (as) you are queen, I seized your hem (and) sought out [...].

(o ii 56) Reliably look at me and speak [...]!

(o ii 57) Grant me good things, destroy [...]!

(o ii 58) Reconcile with me, the one who reveres you [...]

(o ii 59) Wording of a šuʾillakku-prayer [...].

(r i 1) [...] ... [...].

(r i 3) Incantation: [...]

(r i 4) ... [...],

(r i 5) ... [...],

(r i 6) All [...],

(r i 7) She who accepts (prayers) [...]

(r i 8) Prayers (and) supplications, wife of [...],

(r i 9) Son of Tutu, bride of [...].

(r i 10) Foundation of the heavens, mountain of the (four) edges,

(r i 11) Seed of Ezida, the temple of the living creatures of the great gods,

(r i 12) Queen of Borsippa, ruler of the inhabited world.

(r i 13) Tašmetu, lady, whose command is heard,

(r i 14) Whose word is heard by the great gods,

(r i 15) Whose utterances (are heard) by the great goddesses.

(r i 16) Anu, king of the gods, father of the (four) edges,

(r i 17) Has bestowed on you obedience and peace.

(r i 18) Sin, lord of the whole universe,

(r i 19) Makes her heard. Marduk grants you obedience and peace.

(r i 20) You provide all the unsubmissive people

(r i 21) With obedience and good fortune; you make all of them bow down.

(r i 22) You make their speech heard. The crooked among them

(r i 23) You direct aright (so that) they are hostile to the word of misfortune.

(r i 24) You make the distant lands bow down at your command.

(r i 25) O Tašmetu, goddess of sex appeal and sensuality, mistress of lovers,

(r i 26) I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, whose god is so-and-so, whose goddess is so-and-so,

(r i 27) I've turned to you (and) sought you out. Hear my prayer!

(r i 28) To Nabu, your consort, first-born son of Esaggil,

(r i 29) Intercede for me (so that) he may hear my utterance.

(r i 30) At a command from your mouth, may he accept my supplication

(r i 31) (And) come to know (my) prayer. At his respected command,

(r i 32) May god and goddess reconcile with me.

(r i 33) May the illness of my body leave.

(r i 34) May the moaning of my flesh be sent off.