shuilaPacific

Corpus of Akkadian Shuila Prayers Online

Alan Lenzi, University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA)

tablet

Description of circumstances of the evil and its ritual release (o1-8); admonishment to adhere to the instructions (o9); ritual instructions (o10-13); bilingual incantation to Shamash (o14-o6ˊ); SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Shamash 5 (o7ˊ-12ˊ, r1-3); three lines of formulaic phrases (left edge of obv.); rubric (r4); SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Nergal 4 (r5-11); ritual instructions (r1ˊ-8ˊ); description of circumstances of the evil omen and its ritual releasing (r9ˊ-12ˊ); incantation-prayer to the Great Gods 2 (r13ˊ-14aˊ) with further ritual instructions (r14bˊ-15ˊ); catchline (r16ˊ). K.2296 + K.2776 indirectly joins to K.2495 (Thureau-Dangin 1924: 129 = RA 21, 129 = P394469), see Loretz and Mayer 1978, p. XVI; Maul (1994: 388) does not treat it as such.