Old Babylonian incantation against scorpio

A copy of an Old Babylonian (20th-16th century BC) incantation for protection from a scorpio poison. The text is written on the obverse, lower edge, reverse and left side of the tablet. The layout of the text is kept as on the original. There is a colophon on the left side of the tablet, which contains an information that this is a copy and the name of the scribe (i.e. my name), as was the Mesopotamian custom. The colophon is not present on the original tablet. Hand-written in Old Babylonian in an Old Babylonian cuneiform script, fired in a kiln with wood.

Size: 4 cm x 5.1 cm x 1.8 cm (width x height x thickness)

I will enclose a paper with transliteration, transcription, translation to English and with basic information about the text, the language, the script etc.

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