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~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 10
SAA 10 277. Outline of a Purification Ritual (ABL 0370) [from exorcists]
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-nadin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk greatly bless the king, my lord! (6) Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Write me what the treatment is", (9) it is said in the relevant apotropaic ritual text (as follows): (10) "He (the king) sits 7 days in a reed hut, and purification rites are performed upon him; he is treated like a sick person. (r 1) During the 7 days 'hand-lifting' prayers before the nighttime deities and the apotropaic ritual against evil of any kind are performed as well, and the seven days he…
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