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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
The tablet N.D. 5435 was discovered at Nimrud in 1956, in the course of the excavations conducted by Professor M. E. L. Mallowan under the auspices of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. I am much indebted to Professor Mallowan for his generous permission to publish the text in the columns of Iraq, and would also like to thank Dr. J. Læssøe, one of the epigraphists of the Nimrud Expedition in the 1956 campaign, for kindly relinquishing his right of publication and inviting me to prepare an edition of the text. Dr. Læssøe read my article in manuscript and contributed some valuable suggestions.
page 50 note 1 Zimmern, H., Beiträge zur Kenntnis der baby Leipzig 1901, (Assyriologische Bibliothek xii). Ionischen Religion, Die Beschwörungstafeln ŠuipuGoogle Scholar,
page 51 note 1 Or dnin-din-lugx-ga, see Commentary.
page 52 note 1 Text has PA.
page 52 note 2 i.e. the Curse personified as a demon.
page 52 note 3 For this meaning of ṣeḫir rabi, see Jacobsen, Th., Primitive Democracy in Ancient Mesopotamia, J.N.E.S. 2 (1943) 161 n. 12Google Scholar.
page 52 note 4 i.e., man's personal god.
page 53 note 1 For the pronunciation of the name, see C.T. xxv 1, i 2Google Scholar. According to Landsberger, Die Fauna des alten Mesopotamien, 110: nin-kilim=šiκκû mongoose.
page 53 note 2 The term egirrû denotes some sort of omen, an utterance of some human being considered to be premonitory; see A. L. Oppenheim, Sumerian: inim. gar, Akkadian: egirrû=Greek: kledon, in A.f.O. xvii, 49–55 Google Scholar.
page 53 note 3 Meaning established by Falkenstein, Sumerische Beschwörungen aus Boǧazköy in Z.A. 45, (N.F. 11), 36f.
page 53 note 4 Catch-line to the following tablet of the series.
page 54 note 1 For Sumerian lú-lu7 lu=Akkadian lullû, cf. Labat, , Le Poème babylonien de la Création, 142, note on line 6Google Scholar.