In order that contempt, miscarriage of justice, conspiracy to murder, aphasia, (and/or) madness/confusion will not approach a man:

Its ritual: At night, you sweep the roof, sprinkle pure water, (and) in front of Marduk set up a portable altar.

You scatter dates (and) fine flour. You set out a mersu-cake (made of) honey (and) ghee.

You set up a ritual vessel. You scatter sifted grain. You set out a censer of juniper.

You libate first-rate beer. In front of the ritual assemblage, foliage of an apple tree, foliage of a fig tree, (and) foliage of a musukkannu-tree (rosewood?)

you set down. You spread a red cloth over (it). You set down plants from the orchard behind the ritual assemblage.

You do a sacrifice. You set out (for the deity) the shoulder, fatty tissue, and roasted meat.

You take oil in an ointment bowl (made of) boxwood and into that oil

gypsum, “gold” (?), tamarisk, maštakal-plant, sikillu-plant, juniper,

baltu-plant, camelthorn, tarmuš-plant, imḫur-līm-plant, imḫur-ešrā-plant you grind together.

You toss (all of the ground materials) into the oil. You set (the mixture in the bowl) alongside the ritual assemblage. Four anḫullû-plant (amulets)—one of alabaster,

one of gold, one of lapis lazuli, one of mesu-wood—you make. A (bead of) alabaster, gold,

lapis lazuli, (and) mesu-wood you thread in between the anḫullû-plants on a string of flax.

You place (them) alongside the ritual assemblage in a burzigallu-vessel. The dust(?) from (making) the four anḫullû-plants

you mix in cypress oil. You place (it) [along]side the ritual assemblage in an ointment bowl (made of) [boxwood].

You take hold of the sick man’s hand and have him recite the incantation “O Mar[duk, lord of] the lands” three times.

Incantation: O Marduk, lord of the lands, furious, terrifying one,

Splendid one, ever-renewing, perfect one, capable,

Prominent, exalted one, whose utterance cannot changed,

Capable one, broad-minded, sage of the gods, princely,

O Marduk, noble one, supreme being, [whose pos]ition is exalted.

Mighty, massive, fo[rmidible one, who]se comm[and] (is) weighty,

Armed with the flood, without [rival] in battle, [. . .] (is) furious,

O Binduku, perfec[t one, . . .] the fates,

Son of Lugaldu[kuga . . .] the great [. . .],

O celestial (lit. star) Marduk, lord of abu[ndance, . . . pl]enty,

O Marduk, lord of bounty (and) plent[y, who makes] abundance [rai]n down,

O lord of the springs of mountains and seas, who administers the mountain regions,

Who opens wells and watercourses, who makes the rivers flow aright,

Who inspects the grain and cattle, who creates barley and flax, who makes vegetation flourish,

You are the one who forms the built-environment(?) of the god and goddess, the place of all of their sanctuaries.

The great dragon of the Anunnaki, the one who reviews the Igigi,

Wise son of Enanki, creator of all the people,

O lord, (it is) you, who are as a father and mother in the mouth of the people,

(It is) you who illuminates their darkness like Shamash,

Every day [you] adminster justice for the wronged and oppressed.

You guide the orphan, [wi]dow, [wre]tched, and restless aright.

You (are) their wisdom, [. . .] who guide[s them].

The lands and the far-flung peop[le . . .] your weighty [command].

You are merciful, O lord, [. . .] the weak [. . .].

[You s]ee the tired, the exhausted, the one whose (personal) god [. . .].

You [release the one whom the d]ay (of death and) fate have captured (lit. taken away); you [free (lit. brighten)] the captive.

[You ho]ld his hand, you raise up the one [. . .] in bed.

[You] show the light to [the one he]ld in prison, who [. . .] (in) darkness.

I, your servant, so-and-so, son of so-and-sl, whose (personal) god (is) so-and-so, [whose (personal) goddess] (is) so-and-so,

The bath[ed one], whose hands are clean, have prepared for you [. . .] . . .

I have laid out a re[d] cloth [. . .]

Attend to the lifting of my hands, and [. . .]

Concerning the illness from which [I] suff[er:] You, o god, [. . .]

It has enveloped me like a net; it has covered m[e . . .].

An alû-demon, diʾu-illness, and distress afflict me, [they make my limbs] s[hake].

A wicked illness, an oath, a curse make [. . .] waste aw[ay].

They have afflicted the form of my body so that I am clothed (with them) as with [. . .].

Engravings and figurines of me have been inte[rred].

They have gathered sand from (under) my feet; my dimensions have been ta[ken].

My vitality has been taken away. I am infected and afflicted by evil sorcery of men, so that

The anger of divinity and humanity is upon me. My dreams are scarry, evil, malevolent.

My signs, my omens are confused and have no clear (lit. true) outcome (lit. decision).

O my lord, stand (here) this day and hear my speaking. Judge my case; render my verdict.

Remove the illness set upon me, and banish the diʾu-illness from my body.

Let me be at peace with my (personal) god, my (personal) goddess, (and) humankind.

According to the command of your mouth, may evil of any kind, the machinations of witch and warlock not draw near,

May witchcraft, sorcery, enchantments, (or) the evil machinations of humankind not draw near to me.

May the evil of dreams, signs, (and) portents of heaven and earth not draw near to me,

May the evil of a sign (in) the city and land not approach me.

Let me be at peace in your presence from the mouth of evil (and) tongue of evil of men.

May the anḫullû-plant (amulet) with which I am provided on my neck repel any evil from me.

May it deflect the evil curse (and) the ominous unfavorable utterance.

Like alabaster, let my light shine, may I not have gloom.

Like lapis lazuli, may my life become precious before you, may mercy be established for me.

Like gold, may my (personal) god and (personal) goddess be at peace with me.

May I be a blessing in the mouth of the people.

Like mesu-wood, may they remove my evils.

May an evil, wicked curse not draw near to me, may it not approach me.

May my name and my descendant flourish before you.

May the drugs (lit. plants) and the salve which are set before you wipe away my guilt.

May they not allow anger, divine wrath come near me,

(Also, demonic) seizure, sacrilege, (or) fault. May they release oath (and) curse:

The lifting of hand(s) (and) the invocation of the great gods.

At your speaking (lit. mouth), may I pass along (the street) with strength. Order good health (for me)!

May I be as pure as the heavens from the sorcery done against me.

May I be as clean as the earth from the wicked enchantments.

May I be illuminated like the midst of the heavens; may the bond of my evils be released.

May the tamarisk purify me. May the mashtakal-plant release me. May palm-heart dispel my sins.

May Asalluḫi's ritual agubbû-vessel grant favor (to me).

May the censer (and) torch of Girra (and) Kusu cleanse me.

According to the command of Ea, the king of the Apsu, father of the gods, Nin[shi]ku,

On account of the lifting of my hands may your heart, O Asalluḫi, exorcist of the great gods, [. . .], be at rest,

So that I may continually praise the word of Ea, and [. . .] queen Damki[na],

That I, your servant, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, may be healthy (and) w[hole],

(And) that I may laud your divinity (and) sing your praises.

May (personal) my god laud [your] great deeds.

May my (personal) goddess speak of your greatness.

And may I, the exorcist, your servant, sing your praises.

It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer to Marduk.

When the ritual assemblage is completed (and) the censer has used up its materials (lit. portion), do not change where (lit. the place) the head of the sheep is set.

You pull hair from its forehead, and either on a ritually impure person or on a person with leprosy (lit. one filled with leprosy)

you throw (it). When you throw (it), no one should see. "Marduk sent me,

Ea commissioned me" you say three times. Then you take apart the ritual assemblage.

The sick man should go straight to his house and not look behind him.

The dust(?) from (making) the four anḫullû-plants, the erkulla-plant, the elikulla-plant

you mix together in cypress oil. You set (it) alongside the ritual assemblage. You anoint (lit. rub) him (with it).

When you have recited this three times, you lift up the four anḫullû-plants, and

you thread these stone (bead)s (on a string) with the anḫullû-plant, and thus you shall speak to (them):

Incantation: You (are) the anḫullû-plant, the watchman of the well-being of Ea and Asalluḫi,

Do not receive the witchcraft, the sorcery, the contempt,

The anger of (personal) god and (personal) goddess, (and) humankind.

Do not [rec]eive conspiracy to murder, miscarriage of justice, (and) aphasia.

Do not [rec]eive sorcery. [Do not let] wicked witchcraft come near to me.

Establish for me a favorable protective spirit (and) a favorab[le] divine guardian.

(As for) the angry (personal) god, [the angry (personal) goddess], and humankind,

Reconcile (them) to me, [. . .] they speak with me.

By means of the watchman of well-being, may I see a favorab[le dream] at night and every d[ay].

According to the command of Asalluḫi, the sage of [. . .], Marduk.

When you have finished speaking this over the anḫullû-plant (amulet)s,

You place (it) on his neck. Into the oil that is placed in the ointment bowl (made of) boxwood,

You recite the incantation "you are enraged" three times and constantly anoint (lit. rub) (the man).

At the appropriate time (lit. in its day), you pass a ritual agubbû-vessel, a censer, (and) a torch by him, and

He will entreat (his personal) god; he will pray to him. No evil will draw near to him.

His name will be spoken with favor.

If a man's head keeps consuming him (with pain and) his tongue causes him to have stinging pain.

Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of the land of Ashur,

who trusts in Ashur and Ninlil,

to whom Nabu and Tashmetu gave wide understanding,

(who) has achieved enlightened eyes with regard to the highest level of the scribal art,

which among the kings who came before me,

none had learned that art,

the wisdom of Nabu, cuneiform signs, as many as there are.

I wrote, collated, (and) checked (the present text) on tablets.

I deposited (it) in my palace for my reading (and) studying.

The one who trusts in you will not be put to shame, O king of the gods, Ashur.

Whoever carries (this tablet) off or writes his name alongside my name,

may Ashur and Ninlil overthrow him in fierce rage.

May his name (and) his seed disappear from the land.