(1) Incantation. Enlil is my head, my face is ūmu,

(2) Uraš, the perfect god, is the pupil(s) of my face,

(3) My neck is the necklace of Gula,

(4) My arms are the crook of Sîn (and) Amurru,

(5) My fingers are tamarisk, the divine bone—

(6) They shall not allow spittle to reach my body,

(7) Lugaledinna (and) Latarak are my chest,

(8) My knees are Muḫra, my pacing feet are the whole (heavenly) flock.

(9) Whoever you are, O evil god whom the warlock and witch have sent here to kill me:

(10) Even if you are awake, do not come here,

(11) Even if you are asleep, do not rise up (to come) here.

(12) May your words be (bad) apples, before god and king may [they cr]umble.

(13) At my doorway, I have set Lugalirra, the stro[ng] god, (and) the vizier of the gods, Papsukkal.

(14) “Strik[e the cheek of]my warlock and witch,

(15) Tu[rn her word back] into her mouth.” TU₆ ÉN

(16) Incantation. My sorceress is a qumqummatu,

(17) My witch is a charcoal burner(?),

(18) My sorceress is an ecstatic,

(19) The mother of my sorceress is a naršindatu.

(20) “Why do you carry ((my)) life off to the (infernal) ‘princes’?

(21) In order to release your witchcraft, I raise up tullal.

(22) May kukru of the mountains br[ea]k up your bond,

(23) And I [will turn your] w[itchcraft into a wind(?)].” T[U₆ ÉN]

(24) [Incantation. kukru, kukru],

(25) [kukru, inhabitants of the pure, ho]l[y mountains],

(26) [the small terhu-vessels of the] en-prieste[sses],

(27) [the small cones o]f the qadištu-votaries:

(28) [Come hither] and break the [strong] bond of my warlock and witch,

(29) [Turn] her [wit]chcraft into a storm, her words into a wind.

(30) [May] her witchcraft [be] blown away like chaff,

(31) [May it bla]cken her as ashes (would),

(32) May her witchcraft crumble l[ike the plast]er of a wall,

(33) May m[y witch’s] anger be undone (lit.: May the knot of the heart of my witch be loosened).

(34) Incantation. kukru, kukru,

(35) kukru, [inhabitant]s of the pure, holy mountains,

(36) the small terḫu-vessels of the en-priestesses,

(37) the small cones of the qadištu-votaries:

(38) Come hither and break the strong bond of my warlock and witch,

(39) And whatever sorcery you have performed, we turn into a wind.

(40) Incantation. [Ha!] my witch, my deceiver:

(41) What, did you not introduce strife?

(42) Why is smoke rising from your house?

(43) I am sending against you [the plant of] release,

(44) I am scattering your witchcraft, tu[rning your word back into your mouth].

(45) [Incantation. Be]fore Ningirsu called out the alāla work-song in the land,

(46) [Before the y]outh went up to cut the tamarisk,

(47) [Whoever you are(?)], O witch, who gathers together (hail) stones against so-and-so, the son of so-and-so,

(48) [Who keeps see]king evil:

(49) [I am blowing against you] like the Northwest wind,

(50) [I am scattering your cl]oud, I am annihilating your storm,

(51) [and whatever] sorcery you have performed, I am turning into a wind.

(52) [Incantation. On the day that] the witch bewitched me,

(53) [That the inseminatr]ix impregnated me,

(54) [That the sorcer]ess(?) collected the dust of my feet,

(55) [That the woman who instigates sorce]ry(?) took my shadow from the wall,

(56) [O Nergal (or: Tišpak?)], lord of troops, Ea, lord of destinies,

(57) [Asallu]ḫi, lord of exorcism,

(58) [Strike] her cheek, turn her word back into her mouth.

(59) [The sorc]eress and the woman who instigates sorcery—

(60) May her mouth be tallow, her lips torn rags.

(61) Just as the tip(s) of a cut twig of kukru

(62) Cannot draw near to each other,

(63) So her witchcraft, spittle, enchainment, evil machinations

(64) Shall not approach me, shall not draw near to me myself. TU₆ ÉN

(65) Incantation. You who have performed all kinds of sorcery,

(66) Whatever sorcery you have performed against me and my destiny—

(67) May kukru of the mountains break up your bond,

(68) May the South wind carry off what is on your right and on your left. TU₆ ÉN

(69) Incantation. Pure Sulphur, daughter of the great heavens am I.

(70) Anu created me,

(71) Then Enlil (and) Ninlil brought me down to the land.

(72) O sorceress, where (on my body) have you been able to perform sorcery against me?

(73) O inseminatrix, where (on my body) have you been able to impregnate me?

(74) As much as my head (can be reached, so) the heavens can be reached,

(75) As much as my feet (can be reached, so) the netherworld can be reached.

(76) On my inner hem(?)

(77) Is cast the incantation of the sage of the gods, Mard[uk. ÉN]

(78) Incantation. Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, daughter of River, Sulphur, daughter-in-law of River,

(79) Whose witches are seven and seven, whose enemies are seven and seven.

(80) They performed sorcery against her, but she is not ensorcelled,

(81) They bewit[ched her], but she is not bewitched.

(82) Who is it that can perform witchcraft against Sulphur?

(83) May Sulphur rele[ase] the sorcery that the seven and seven have performed against me.

(84) May Sulphur [...] ... release the sorcery that the seven and seven have performed against me so that I may live. TU₆ É[N]

(85) Incantation. Pure Sulphur (and) atāʾišu, the holy plant, am I.

(86) My sorcerers are the Sages of the aps[û],

(87) My sorceresses are the heavenly Daughters of Anu.

(88) When they performed sorcery against me, they were never able to overpower me,

(89) But when I performed sorcery against them, I kept on overpowering them.

(90) I rise up like fish from my water,

(91) Like a pig from my mud,

(92) Like soapwort from the flood plain,

(93) Like grass from the canal bank,

(94) Like seed of ebony from the seashore.

(95) Ha! you of the Baliḫ, Ha! you of the Baliḫ,

(96) Hide yourselves ((here)) in the ground,

(97) You who shook your hair out at me.

(98) Incantation. River is my head, Sulphur my physique,

(99) My feet are the river whose interior no one knows,

(100) Anhullû-plant is my mouth, Ocean—the vast sea—is my hands.

(101) Like River my head (is pure), like pure Sulphur my ha[ir] (is pure),

(102) Like Anhullû!-plant (and) Imḫurlīmu, the plants that release,

(103) My limbs are pure.

(104) In ..., with sulp[hur]

(105a) Ea purified me. [...]

(105b) Ištar ... .

(106) Incantation. O River, I have eaten, I have drunk, I have salved my[self], I have cl[othed myself(?)], I have donned a headdress,

(107) River, I have dressed my[self, I have ...],

(108) River, food and water I have cleared away(?),

(109) River, [I have ...] the do[or(?)], I have put the doorjamb into place(?),

(110) River, ... [...] (possibly: River, ta[ke heed ...])

(111) River, turba[n! ...]

(112) ... [...]

(113ʹ) [Incantation. Ha! my witch, my deceiver, whoever you are,]

(114ʹʹ) [...] ... [...]

(115ʹʹ) [... ot]her than you ... [...]

(116ʹʹ) [at(?) the gods of the h]eaven, the shrines of the ear[th],

(117ʹʹ) [...] Sulphur, the daughter of the great gods,

(118ʹʹ) [Undone is] your [witchcraft], on the day of the disappearance of the moon your spittle is released.

(119ʹʹ) Incantation. You, Salt, who were created in a pure place,

(120ʹʹ) For food of the great gods did Enlil destine you.

(121ʹʹ) Without you a meal would not be set out in Ekur,

(122ʹʹ) Without you god, king, noble, and prince would not smell incense.

(123ʹʹ) I am so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, whom witchcraft holds captive,

(124ʹʹ) Whom machinations hold in (the form of a skin) disease.

(125ʹʹ) Release my witchcraft, O Salt, dispel my spittle,

(126ʹʹ) Take over from me the machinations, then will I constantly praise you as (I praise) my creator god.

(127ʹʹ) Incantation. Ha! my witch, my inseminatrix,

(128ʹʹ) Who has lit a fire (against me) at a distance of one league,

(129ʹʹ) Who has repeatedly sent her messengers towards me at a distance of two leagues.

(130ʹʹ) I know and have gained full confidence (in my abilities to hold you off).

(131ʹʹ) I have installed a watch on my roof, a protective emblem at my gate.

(132ʹʹ) I have surrounded my bed with (colored) twine,

(133ʹʹ) I have scattered asafoetida (upon a censer) at the head of my bed—

(134ʹʹ) Asafoetida is especially strong, it will cause all your witchcraft to wither.

(135ʹʹ) Incantation. Ha! my witch, my inseminatrix,

(136ʹʹ) Who has lit a fire against me at a distance of one league,

(137ʹʹ) Who has repeatedly sent [h]er messengers towards me at a distance of two leagues.

(138ʹʹ) I know and have gained full confidence (in my abilities to hold you off).

(139ʹʹ) I have installed a watch on my roof, a protective emblem at my gate.

(140ʹʹ) I have placed twelve (wooden) šaʾerrus at the head of my bed,

(141ʹʹ) (In which are) food offerings for ghost(s), offspring of G[irra], your [b]urner,

(142ʹʹ) And of Nissaba, the queen, who chops off your fingers.

(143ʹʹ) Incantation. Ha! my witch, my deceiver,

(144ʹʹ) You who (constantly) roam over all lands,

(145ʹʹ) Who cross to and fro over all mountains.

(146ʹʹ) I know and have gained full confidence (in my abilities to hold you off).

(147ʹʹ) I have installed a watch on my roof, a protective emblem at my gate.

(148ʹʹ) At the right of my gate and the left of my gate,

(149ʹʹ) I have posted Lugalirra and Mesl[amt]aʾea,

(150ʹʹ) May the gods of the watch, they who tear out the heart (and) sq[uee]ze together the kidneys,

(151ʹʹ) Kill the w[it]ch so that I may live.

(152ʹʹ) [Incantation].Ha! my witch, my deceiver,

(153ʹʹ) You who (constantly) roam over all lands,

(154ʹʹ) Who cross to and fro over all mountains.

(155ʹʹ) I know and have gained full confidence (in my abilities to hold you off).

(156ʹʹ) I have installed a wa[tch on] m[y roof], a protective emblem at my gate.

(157ʹʹ) [In m]y [courtyard] I have piled up a pure mountain.

(158ʹʹ) ...

(159ʹʹ) [Incantation. My hand is the Rainbow, the Scorpion].

(160ʹʹ) [The six]th [tablet] of Maqlû.

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(F₁,iv_1′–6′) (Ashurbanipal colophon, type c (Hunger, BAK, no. 319))

(E,iv_2′) Written and [checked according to] its original.

(E,iv_3′–4′) (Ashurbanipal colophon, type a (Hunger, BAK, no. 319))