LKU 032[via caspo]

[. . . ] O Sin, who provides progeny (lit. seed) [. . .]

[. . .] You (are) (lit. ditto) [. . .] the far-flung people. O Sin, according to [your . . .] comma[nd]

and your sure affirma[tion], which cannot be overturned, I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, [. . .]

for so-and-so, son of so-and-so, your servant, whose (personal) god (is) so-and-so, whose (personal) goddess (is) so-and-so, [. . .] ritual (lit. work, action) [. . .]

O Sin, may the epilepsy(?) that has seized him not draw near to him. Remove (it) from his body. [. . .]

May it not be turned toward him again. May it not again [. . .]

You speak (this) three times, then the extra (lit. strange, foreign) child, who dr[ew] water from the river, [. . .]

sprinkles that (poultice) with water. You set out the poultice that you wrapped, and the sick person [. . . this] incantation.

You put that poultice around his neck, and it shall not seize him again. [Sprouted] alkali-plant, [. . .],

the bone of a human (with) the fat of a bull you crush together. In naphtha, fish oil, fin[e] oil [. . .]

If ditto: The grease from the right (side) of a large gate, the root of a baltu-plant, the root of camelthorn, centipe[de . . .]

Incantation: Lamashtu has come down from the heavens. She is crowned with her upru-headdress. [. . .]

She is always creeping through the window. She constantly leans over the wall. Am[ong . . .]

She constantly cavorts among the donkeys. (She says,) "Bring me [your] child[ren that I may suckle (them)]!

To the mouth of your daughters I will constantly place (my) breast." But we (are) not [dogs. . . .]

To flay that which (lies) before you. To chop up that which (lies) behind you. To cut o[ff that which (is) at your heel.]

The incantation is not mine. (It is) an incantation of Asalluḫi and [Gula . . .].

[Its ritual: . . .] of the sea, "male" mūṣu-stone (i.e., some mineral), (some kind of) rush, which . . . [. . .],

[you mix . . . in the blood of] (some bird), the blood of a shrew, (and) the resin (lit. blood) of cedar.

[. . .] . . . [. . .]

[. . . you bind] black [obsidian on his hand . . .]

You bind red kapāṣu-stone (some kind of seashell) on his foot [. . .]

You grind flax with oil [. . .]

Incantation: Abracadabra-formulas.

Abracadabra-formulas.

Ningirim said to me, . . . [. . .]

The wording so that no evil [will approach] a child.

It ritual: Šu-stone, ašnugallu-stone (alabater), [šubû-stone, SAL.LA-stone, ayyartu-stone (cowry shell?), pappardalû-stone (agate?)],

biṣṣūr-atāni-stone (lit. donkey mare's genitals; likely a shell of some kind), ušû-stone (diorite), yānibu-stone, ["masculine" ŠU]-stone, ["feminine" ŠU]-stone [you thread on a string of linen].

The dust from a crossroads, the dust from the gate of (the temple of) Gula, ēdu-plant (Asa foetida?), [lupin, imḫur-līm-plant (lit. it opposes a thousand (illnesses)-plant), imḫur-ešrā-plant (lit. it opposes twenty (illnesses)-plant)],

puquttu-plant (a thorny weed), elkulla-plant, šakirû-plant (henbane?) [you wrap] ami[dst the stones].

You put (this ritual artifact) around his neck, then no evil will [approach him, and Lamashtu will be removed].

Incantation: Abracadabra-formulas.

Abracadabra-formulas.

The [wo]rding (for when) a baby is persistently scared and constantly trembling.

[Its ritual]: You thread kapāṣu-stone (some kind of seashell) on a string of black wool. You t[ie] seven knots. [. . .]

[. . .] on her left hand [. . .]

[. . .] You thread [. . . on a string] of black wool. You tie seven knots. [. . .]

[. . .] tamarisk, purslane(?), a soiled rag.

[. . . Before] she puts (her) breast to his mouth, smear him (with it), and he will recover.