KAR 042 (+) LKA 074[via caspo]

(o 1) [If the hand of a gh]ost has seized [a man], epilepsy has seized him, ["falling from hea]ven"-disease (epilepsy?) has seized him, the Sagḫulḫaza-demon has seized him, [Lugal-ur]ra has seized him, the hand of a god has seized him, [the hand] of a goddess has seized him, the hand of an oath has seized him, [the hand] of humanity has seized him, the evil Allu-demon has enveloped him, mania has seized him, he suffers from the shivers, [fu]ry, rage, anger of the (personal) god and (personal) goddess is against him, his ears ring, he is constantly in distress, he forgets what he was going to say, he constantly talks to himself, . . . , he vacillates, he cannot make a decision, he does not follow through with his intentions (lit. speaking and changing beset him), he constantly experiences losses, he is beset with [fe]ar at night (and) daze all day long, conflict in his house (and) arguments in the street beset him, he is displeasing to those who look upon him, a curse from the mouth of many people beset him, he considers foolish thoughts against (his personal) goddess: Concerning that man, the anger of the (personal) god and (personal) goddess is against him. To release (the anger) so that his apprehension does not overtake him and these sicknesses are removed from his body:

(o 19) You bring one measure of a loaf (baked on) coals to the sheepfold of the shepherd and give (it) to the shepherd. You buy a female virgin kid (and) feed it tamarisk all day. At night, [you sweep] the roof; you sprinkle pure water. In front of Ishtar you set up a portable altar. You strew dates (and) fine flour. You set out mirsu-[cakes] of honey (and) ghee. You set up a censer of juniper. You libate beer. In front of Gula, you set out on top of a table one measure of a loaf (baked on) coals (and) a loaf of emmer. You set up a censer of juniper. You libate beer. You hold up a scale. You set on top (of the scale some of) the hair from its (i.e., the kid's) forehead and its fringe. You weigh (the hair) on the scale. You put an assinnu-official in place. He performs his cultic lament. You slaughter the virgin female kid (and) roast (its) heart. You remove (its) skin and set (it) alongside the ritual assemblage. The sick man raises his hand and recites the incantation "you (are) Kilili" three times.

(o 32) Incantation: You (are) Kilili who leans in through the windows,

(o 33) Wisest of the wise, who has the people's concerns in mind,

(o 34) Who selects the [w]edding [house], who makes the young woman come forth from her bedroom,

(o 35) I (am) so-and-so, son of so-and-so, [whose] (personal) god (is) [so-and-so (and) whose (personal) goddess (is) so-and-s]o,

(o 36) whom hardship has encounter[ed; and] (now) I kneel [before you].

(o 37) I have put together a pure ritual assemblage for you, a censer of jun[iper (and) resin]—a pleasing [fragr]ance.

(o 38) I have set up for you a pure (cake?), a loaf (baked on) coals. I have strewn for you a pure ration of salt and [flour]. May your divinity accept (them).

(o 39) I libated for you mixed billu-beer (and) sweet kurunnu-beer. I have selected (and) presented to you

(o 40) a pure female kid, worthy of your divinity, from the shepherd Dumuzi.

(o 41) I removed its heart (and) burned (it) before you, which peop[le] have always done since former days.

(o 42) . . . . I have set up (lit. made) a scale for (determining) weight.

(o 43) I have placed my hair and the hem (of) my (garment) for the weight.

(o 44) As for me, your servant, whom you, most exalted lady, have cared for,

(o 45) [You ha]ve made my limbs limp(?), great Ishtar.

(o 46) The exorcist has [wi]ped me clean before you. With a censer, a torch, (and) a loaf (baked on) coals

(o 47) [he] has purified me. With an agubbû-vessel may I be pure before you.

(o 48) [May] your assinnu-official stand and bear away my hardship.

(o 49) The illness that has seized me may he send out the window! May he send away my body's nakmu and nakimtu.

(o 50) [May he] carry off the stiffness (and) lubāṭu-disease of my flesh. The illness in my body is as dense(?) as a cloud.

(o 51) Rip out any evil, any unpleasant thing from my body!

(o 52) Assign my illness, O my lady, to one who does not fear you!

(o 53) Your assertion of mercy (lit. "your 'enough!'"), O Ishtar, lady of the lands, belongs to you, O Ishtar.

(o 54) When the sick man has recited this in front of Ishtar, the exorcist lifts up the skin of the virgin female kid and recites "O queen Ishtar, great lady" three times.

(o 57) Incantation: O queen Ishtar, great lady, may the heavens (and) Apsu rejoice on account of you!

(o 58) May Anu, Enlil, and Ea greet your great divinity!

(o 59) May the gods of the heavens and earth appease your heart!

(o 60) On this da[y I have slaughtered the female] kid, I have flayed its skin.

(o 61) Any evil [. . .]

(r 1) [(and) so]rcer[y . . .] in your presence [. . .]

(r 2) May it go into hiding! Wherever it is pl[aced],

(r 3) May it heal the sickness of his body. May it est[ablish] wholeness.

(r 4) When you have recited this three times, you make the assinnu-official hold up the loaf that (was) in front of Gula and the scale, and you make him go out to the (city) gate. You take apart the ritual assemblage and prostrate yourself. You tan the skin of the female kid in milk of a yellowish-colored goat and flour. You rub (it) with fine oil (and) fat of a pure cow. You soak alum <in> (freshly ?) pressed grape juice and dye the surface(?) of the skin with gardeners' madder. (The skin) is an effective poultice and treatment of this sick person.

(r 13) (Incantation): O milk of a yellowish-colored goat, which was born [in] the [pure] fold of the shepherd Dumuzi,

(r 15) O goat milk, whom the shepherd gives you with his pure hands,

(r 17) Be mixed into the skin of the virgin female kid.

(r 19) May Kusu, the high priest of Enlil, tan (the skin) with his pure hands.

(r 20) Asalluḫi, son of Eridu, has cast the incantation.

(r 21) Ningirima, lady of the agubbû-vessel, made (it) pure (and) holy (lit. bright).

(r 23) (Incantation): Ta[ke] the fat of the pure cow, the pure oil, the fi[ne] oil.

(r 25) [Rub] (it into) the skin of the vir[gin] female kid.

(r 26) Asal[luḫi, son of Eridu, has c]ast the incantation.

(r 27) [Nin]girima, lady of the agubbû-vessel, made (it) [pure (and) h]oly (lit. bright).

(r 29) (Incantation): [Mad]der, the pure wood, which has sproute[d] from (lit. built, created in) the mud-brick wall,

(r 32) May Igisigsig, the great gardener of Anu, give (i.e., the madder) with his pure hands.

(r 34) Take the alum.

(r 36) Soak (it) [in] pressed grape juice.

(r 38) May Kusu, the high priest of Enlil, tan (the skin) with his pure hands.

(r 39) Asalluḫi, son of Eridu, has cast the incantation.

(r 40) Ningirima, lady of the agubbû-vessel, made (it) pure (and) holy (lit. bright).

(r 41) Nammu, the great mother, set (it) in the place of life(?).

(r 42) Incantation: O Ishtar, lady of the heavens (and) the earth, may the heavens and the earth rejoice on your account.

(r 43) May the gods, who dwell in Ekur and the Apsu, make your heart glad.

(r 44) You are the celestial luminary. May Sin make your holy (lit. pure) name (as) bright

(r 45) as the light (that illumines) the length of the heavens;

(r 46) (variant): the light, (that illumines) the boundary of (the heavens).

(r 47) You bear the throwing stick, the holy establisher of order.

(r 48) I have taken (my) stand before you for a true and just judgment.

(r 49) Tear out my illness. Order my well-being.

(r 50) May my freedom be established (lit. may they establish my freedom) in your presence.

(r 51) May my sin be absolved. May my constraint become loose.

(r 52) Grant [me] offspring (that) I may have authority over progeny,

(r 53) (And that) [I may praise your] greatness (and) proclaim the [pr]aises of your great divinity to the teeming (people)!

(r 54) [The wording of a lifted-hand prayer] to Ishtar. Its ritual: You slaughter a female virgin kid (and) roast (its) heart.

(r 55) [. . .]-leʾi, the junior scribe, son of Arad-Ishtar, the (Babylonian?) scribe.