BaF 18, 527-528[via caspo]

[If lightn]ing (lit. a fall of fire) occurs in a man's house, in the house where the lightning was seen, [at night seven braziers]

[. . .], you heap up eʾru-tree, ebony, and reed [.] . . [. . .]

You lay across (that) [cedar], cypress, (and) sweet reed. Charcoal from a burzisallû-vessel [. . .]

. . . You cause chaff to smoke, and you blo[w] on the fire.

A torch, made with cedar, cypress, sweet reed, a ball of wool, and red wool [. . .]

You set these on fire in the braziers. [You set up] two portable altars, (one) to Ea and (one to) [Asalluḫi].

You strew dates (and) fine flour. You set up a masabbu-basket, and [set (in place)] a mirsu-cak[e].

You slaughter an uninseminated female goat, and [you set] the shoulder, fatty tissue, and roast meat on top of the [portable altar].

You set up a ḫarû-vessel. You prepare a censer, and you draw near to the brazier. [Until their . . .]

has finished, you stand (there). As soon as the coals appear, [you put] the fatty tissue [of the female goat on the seven braziers].

[Cedar], cypress, sweet reed, myrtle, ballukku-aromatics(?), suādu-plant, kuk[uru-aromatics, juniper],

[juniper seed], wormwood, argānu-resin, sagapenum, and one lite[r of flour on top of the braziers]

you pour out. And you burn (that) all through the night. [. . .] seven adagurru-vessels, where [you erected] the brazier[s, . . .]

In their midst, you fix in place sweet reed. You lay out lines of flour, and . . . [. . .]

you have carry away. You draw water for yourself. [You throw] in (see obv. 16) silver, gold, ḫulālu-stone, [carnellian, lapis lazulli, oil, fine oil],

pressed oil, cedar oil, gan-u₅-plant, tamarisk, tuḫlu-plant, qan šalāši-reed, (and) date palm sprout.

You put (that) out on the roof exposed to (lit., to the face of) the night stars. The exorcist [must not eat] garlic, leek, cress, fish, (or) a taboo (item).

. . ., and you lie down. In the morning, before sunrise (lit., shining), you get up, and you pour out (see obv. 19) oil, [fine] oil,

[pressed oil], honey, ghee, beer, milk, wine, emmer beer, where the braziers (are positioned), [and]

[. . .] you go [to the middle of the br]aziers, [and you recite the incantation as follows]:

[Incantation: He]ro, lord [. . .]

[He]ro, [. . .] lo[rd . . .]

Gibil, the [. . .] flood [. . .]

Ditto (= Gibil), the ri[sing] flood, [. . .]

[The king(?),] whose sheen [. . .]

[The lord, who]se sheen [. . .]

[The god,] whose [div]ine radiance [possesses] awesome splendor,

[The god, wh]ose divine radiance posses[ses] awesome splendor,

When he [rages], no god can oppose (him),

[When] he rages, no god can oppose (him),

With Asalluḫi's [spell], with the spell of Ea, your father,

[With] Marduk's incantation, with the spell of Ea, your father,

[O Lor]d, to appease you, to soothe yourself with water,

[O lord], to appease you, to put you at ease,

I (hereby) set out [(an offering of) maṣḫa]tu-flour, a pure cleansing ritual act ("hand washing"-rite),

I (hereby) set out [. . .], a pure cleansing ritual act ("hand washing"-rite),

[. . .], clean [water], tamarisk water, maštakal-plant, šalāši-reed, date palm sprout, gold, silver, ḫulālu-stone, carnellian,

[lapis laz]ulli, ... oil, myrtle oil, cedar oil, fine oil, sweet oil, pressed oil, honey, ghee,

[ju]niper, juniper seed, ballukku-aromatics(?), cedar, cypress, sweet reed I heap up for you.

[Milk], beer, wine, emmer beer I pour out for you. I have indeed ignited (these) seven braziers.

Accept it with rejoicing. May your heart be pacified. May you be soothed.

Accept it with rejoicing. May your heart be pacified. May your mood (lit., liver) be at ease.

The house that you enter, do not allow mourning.

May your sign be(come) favorable (for me in this situation).

May this man's (personal) god praise your greatness. May this man praise you!

Even I, the exorcist, your servant, will prai[se] you!

The wording of a lifted-hand prayer to Nusku (so that) lightn[ing-ignited] fire [ . . .]

As soon as you have recited this (incantation), you complete the libation and clear away the ritual assembly. [The brazier's] ashes

you gather up. You bring an adagurru-vessel, pannigu-bread, "ear"-bread, (and) mirsu-cake with the as[hes to the river].

You pour out the maṣḫatu-flour and miḫḫu-beer for the river. You throw (the various ritual items) into the waters of release. [You turn back] from the river, [and]

set the house in order. You sprinkle the agubbu-vessel (with water). With the "goat that drives away evil," the agubbu-vessel, the "skin of [a great bull," nigkalagû-drum],

a barley offering (šebirbirredû), a censer, (and) a torch you purify (that) house, and as with flour, with gyp[sum . . .]