This tablet is an anti-witchcraft ritual addressed to Marduk and Ishtar with contents as follows: Description of symptoms (o1-25), ritual instructions (o26-37), incantation-prayer Marduk 25 (r1ˊ-24ˊ), ritual instructions (r25ˊ-29ˊ), catchline (r30ˊ), and Ashurbanipal colophon c (r31ˊ-43ˊ). Rev. 30ˊ no longer seems to be a catchline to
SB Šuʾilla Prayer to Ninurta 1, as suggested in Mayer 1976: 404 (s.v. AMT 21/2, rev. 7ˊ) and Abusch and Schwemer 2011: 327 (likewise Frechette 2012: 266), due to the joining of K.11969 (by Schwemer, 8/11/2017), which restores the beginning of the catchline to EN₂ UR.SA[G
ap-lu(?)
ga]
š-ru bu-kur₂ ͩ +EN.LIL₂ (see Abusch and Schwemer 2020: 281 and on ORACC, →
here, s.v. A=AMT 21/2+, r 30'). The opening line of Ninurta 1, as best attested on
BMS 2, is: EN₂
ap-lu gaš-ru bu-kur₂ ͩ EN.LI[L₂].
