anguage,
but Assyrian translations are appended in a column to the right of the
tablet. The legends are lithographed in the "Cuneiform Inscriptions of
Western Asia," Vol. II, plates 17 and 18. They have been translated by M.
Oppert in the "_Journal Asiatique_" of January, 1873, and an analytical
rendering of them is given by M. Fr. Lenormant in his "_Etudes
Accadiennes_" II, I (1874).

TRANSLATION OF THE EXORCISMS

TABLET I

The noxious god, the noxious spirit of the neck, the neck-spirit of the
desert, the neck-spirit of the mountains, the neck-spirit of the sea, the
neck-spirit of the morass, the noxious cherub of the city, this noxious
wind which seizes the body (and) the health of the body. Spirit of heaven
remember, spirit of earth remember.

TABLET II

The burning spirit of the neck which seizes the man, the burning spirit of
the neck which seizes the man, the spirit of the neck which works evil,
the creation of an evil spirit. Spirit of heaven remember, spirit of earth
remember.

TABLET III

Wasting, want of health, the evil spirit of the ulcer, spreading quinsy of
the gullet, the violent ulcer, the noxious ulcer. Spirit of heaven
remember, spirit of earth remember.

TABLET IV

Sickness of the entrails, sickness of the heart, the palpitation of a sick
heart, sickness of bile, sickness of the head, noxious colic, the
_agitation_ of terror, flatulency[1] of the entrails, noxious illness,
lingering sickness, nightmare. Spirit of heaven remember, spirit of earth
remember.

[Footnote 1: Literally, "opposition."]

TABLET V

He who makes an image (which) injures the man,[1] an evil face, an evil
eye, an evil mouth, an evil tongue, evil lips, an evil poison. Spirit of
heaven remember, spirit of earth remember.

[Footnote 1: Here we have a reference to a custom well known in the Middle
Ages. A waxen figure was made, and as it melted before the fire the person
represented by it was supposed, similarly to waste away. It will be
remembered that Horace ("Sat." i, 8, 30 sq.) speaks of the waxen figure
made by the witch Canidia in order that the lover might consume away in
the fires of love. Roman and mediaeval sorcery had its origin in that of
ancient Accad.]

TABLET VI

The cruel spirit, the strong spirit of the head, the head-spirit that
departs not, the head-spirit that goes not forth, the head-spirit that
will not go, the noxious head-spirit. Spirit of heaven rememb