AOAT 046, 008[via caspo]

[Incantation: . . .] . . . [. . .]

[. . .] . . . goodness, [its] evil

[. . .] goodness, its evil is yours.

[. . .] . . .

May Marduk make the bulls(?) rage.

Make the evil(?) depart. Remove its evil! Incantation formula.

Its ritual: You make a crescent moon out of pure copper.

You make a second, small crescent moon inside it.

You write this incantation on it (i.e., the second crescent moon).

And you tie the stones (against) any evil inside of it.

Zalāqu-stone (a bright stone), anzaḫḫu-stone, ḫuluḫḫu-stone (a light-colored slag), kutpû-stone (black frit), mūṣu-stone (some mineral),

turminabandû-stone (breccia), šadānu ṣābitu-stone (magnetite), parzillu-stone (iron),

ṣurru namru-stone ("radiant" flint/obsidian), erû zikaru-stone ("masculine" copper). First band (of stones).

Šadānu ṣābitu-stone (magnetite), ṣurru namru-stone ("radiant" flint/obsidian), turminabandû-stone (breccia), parzillu-stone (iron),

Zalāqu-stone (a bright stone), anzaḫḫu-stone, ḫuluḫḫu-stone (a light-colored slag). Second band (of stones).

Turminabandû-stone (breccia), ašpû-stone (jasper), ṣurru namru-stone ("radiant" flint/obsidian),

ayyartu-stone (cowry shell?), yānibu-stone, "masculine" ŠU-stone, "feminine" ŠU-stone. Third band (of stones).

Twenty-four stones total. You thread these (stones) on a copper wire in the crescent moon (symbol).

You thread fourteen stones of copper and fourteen of stag horn on a multi-colored (thread of) wool.

You thread the sinew of a dead cow on the right and the left (side) of the crescent moon.

All of (this ritual material) you place on the neck of the one whom AN.TA.ŠUB.BA seized, and he will recover.

[Incantation: O Sin], you (are) [the heir], the foremost one. O Sin, you (are) the great lord!

[O Sin] you (are) [the one who names (lit. names names)]. O Sin, you (are) the one who loves offspring.

O Sin, you (are) the one who gives offspring.

O Sin, you (are) the one who gives health.

O Sin, you (are) . . . {new break}

O Sin, you (are) the one who gives health and offspring to the far-flung land.

O Sin, according to your august command which cannot be abolished,

[and] your firm consent [that] cannot [be changed],

I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, the exor[cist, your servant],

for so-and-so, son of so-and-so, whose (personal) god (is) so-and-so, (and personal) goddess (is) [so-and-so],

do this ritual. O Sin, the epilepsy that has seized [him]

may it not return to him; may it not draw near to him; may it not approach him. Incantation formula.

The wording of a hand-lifting prayer to Sin.

Its ritual: As soon as you have completed making (the ritual artifacts of) Sin, you sweep the roof (and) sprinkle pure water seven times.

You set up a portable altar. You make an offering, a large sheep. You cook all of it.

You set (it) out in the presence of the crescent moon. You recite this incantation three times.

You wait and (then) kneel down. According to(?) a tested ritual procedure. Original of Babylon.

Incantation: O Sin, you (are) the exalted lord!

O Sin, you (are) the one who illuminates the darkness!

O Sin, you (are) the one who removes sickness from all the people!

[. . .] . . . remove the sickness from my body.

[. . .] (that) I may sing [your praises]. Incantation formula.

[Its ritual: . . .] . . . in the midst of the heavens . . .

[. . . You place (it?)] in a large pursitu-vessel in the presence of [Sin].

[. . .], and the crescent moon . . . [. . .]