Appendix

The following incantation, as discussed earlier, is one of a pair of two Old Babylonian incantations noted for the drawings of demons they display on the reverse of each tablet. bm 92670, edited in full below from my own collations of the tablet, contains one of the few definitive references to the lama hul, though the incantation itself is a fairly standard scapegoat ritual, wherein the affliction is removed from the patient and placed inside a substitute animal; in this particular case, a goat.

The text, to date, has not been fully edited; though the tablet has been published in handcopy,^[54] ^{^[55] the incantation itself has only been considered as one source for a created, composite incantation, and has not been edited as an independent text in its own right.3⁴ bm 92670; ct 44 26
1 en e-nu-r[u]
2 a-sag gig-ga su lu-k[a]
3 lu-ulu pap-hal-la tug-gin₇ im-mi-[in-dul]
4 su-bi giri-bi nu-ub-si-in-[ga-ga]
5 nun gal ^den-ki en ka inim-ma-lbil
6 den-ki-ne-Se dnun-ki-ne-[Se]
7 maS sag gaba-ri-a ba-an-si
8 sag maS sag lu-Se ba-an-si
9 gu maS gu lu-Se ba-an-si
10 gaba maS gaba lu-Se ba-an-si
11 mud maS mud lu-Se ba-an-si
12 lipiS maS lipiS lu-Se ba-an-si
13 a zi-da a zi-da-Se ba-an-si
14 a gab-bu a gab-bu-Se ba-an-si
15 ti-ti-Se ba-an-si ^Uzumurgu ^Uzumurgu-Se ba-an-si
16 giS-ge-en-ge-na giS-ge-en-ge-na Iba-an-sil u-mu-e-si edge
17 igi [su?] bar-ra-na Su u-mu-ni-su--su-ub rev.
1 xx [e] AN AS ma-na u-me-ni-e
2 [z]e-ba gi-izi-la u-me-ni-bar7
3 [gi]dim hul a-la hul su-lu-ta
he-eb-ta-zil xxx-di^[56]
4 [x]-ra-ne-ta he-eb-ta-x
5 [^dudug h]ul ^dlama h[ul]
bar--da-su₈-su_g-g[e-e]s^[57]
6 ka-inim-ma mas gaba-r[i-ga-kam]
1 Incantation:
2 The evil asag-demon is in a man's body,
3 It covers the patient like a garment,
4 He cannot raise his hand nor his foot,
5 The great prince Enki, this lord of incantations,
6 To the Enki and Ninki gods
7 He set a scapegoat as a substitute,
8 He set the head of the goat for the head of the man;
9 He set the neck of the goat for the neck of the man;
10 He set the chest of the goat for the chest of the man;
11 He set the blood of the goat for the blood of the man;
12 He set the innards of the goat for the innards of the man;
13 He set the right side [of the goat] for the right side [of the man];
14 He set the left side [of the goat] for the left side [of the man];
15 He set rib for rib; he set blood for blood;
16 THe set! limbs to limbs. Once you have placed,
edge
17 The flesh he has seen; after you gather it together,
rev.
1 xxx After you come forth,
2 After you burn away that poison by torch,
3 The evil ghost, evil ala demon from the body,
They will leave.
4 From the... they will leave
5 The evil udug, the evil lama—
They will stand aside!
6 This is the wording (of the incantation) of the substitute goat.^[58]}

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Source: Bhayro Siam, Rider Catherine (eds.). Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period. Leiden, Boston: Brill,2017. — xiv, 434 p.. 2017

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