BRM 4, 20 [Ašipus’ Almanac Commentary]

(o 1) Confusion: the sign of the Lion.

(o 2) Injustice: the sign of Gula.

(o 3) To relax the hands: the sign of the Furrow.

(o 4) Curse-removal: the sign of Gula.

(o 5) (For) a man to love a woman: the sign of the Scales.

(o 6) (For) a woman to love a man: the sign of the Tails.

(o 7) (For) a man to love a man: the sign of the Scorpion.

(o 8) To have sex with a woman: the sign of the Hireling.

(o 9) Cutting-of-life: the sign of Pabilsag; alternatively, the sign of the Twins.

(o 10) Vertigo: the sign of the Great Twins.

(o 11) To purify (by) the divine River or a well: the sign of the Goatfish.

(o 12) To enter the palace: the sign of the Crab.

(o 13) Appeasement of anger: the sign of Gula.

(o 14) (For) the king in his palace to remember his (a man's) name in kindness: the sign of 5 UŠ in front of the King.

(o 15) (For) the prince in his palace to call his (a man's) name in kindness: the sign of the Tails.

(o 16) (For) whoever sees you to become joyful or rejoice in front of you: the sign of the Lion.

(o 17) (For) making a woman speak: the sign of the Hireling.

(o 18) (For) whoever sees you to point his finger in kindness above you: the sign of the Furrow.

(o 19) Deposit of silver: the sign of the naming of the Bull of Heaven.

(o 20) To return a fugitive: the sign of the King; alternatively, the sign of the Scales.

(o 21) (For) a man's wife not to raise her eyes or eye to another man: the sign of the Great Twins.

(o 22) Hate: the sign of the Scorpion.

(o 23) Ritual to dispel sorcery: the sign of Gula; alternatively, the sign of the Tails.

(o 24) To block the foot of evil from a man's house: the sign of the Bristle; alternatively, the sign of Gula.

(o 25) To provide profit for a brewer: the sign of the Crab; alternatively, the sign of Gula.

(o 26) To undo sorcery; (for) illness not to approach a man; to heal the head; to drive out his shivering; to heal a wound; to block a woman's (menstrual) blood; (for) evil not to approach a man's house: the sign of the Goatfish.

(o 29) The lilû-demon: the sign of the Bristle; alternatively, the sign of the Scales.

(o 30) The ardat-lilî demon: the sign of the Bristle; alternatively, the sign of the Twins; thirdly, the sign of Pabilsag.

(o 31) The lilû-demon (and) the ardat-lilî demon: the sign of Pabilsag.

(o 32) Falling sickness, Bel-uri, the hand of a god, the hand of a ghost: the sign of the Lion.

(o 33) To seize a ghost (and) attach (it) to a man; to consign a man's effigy to death; to give [...] to a ghost to drink; to drive out wrongdoing: the sign of the Crab.

(o 35) To perform (the ritual) "having sex with a woman" so as not to acquire sin: the sign of Gula.

(o 36) To invite a god; to invite a goddess; to cure sagallu-illness; to purify a temple; [...]; to heal a stone (in the body); to hold back diarrhoea; to remove fever: [...].

(r 1) (For) a nobleman or prince not to give (or) receive slander: [...].

(r 2) To acquire lack of iniquity; [...] a man in front of (another) man; [...]; either to hold back a dead man, or [...] a sorceror [...], or to remove a dead man from the palace, or [...] to seize [...], (or) to block the king's beloved, [...]: [...].

(r 6) Oral paralysis: the sign of [...].

(r 7) sankidabbû-illness: the sign of [...].

(r 8) Sexual desire: the sign of [...].

(r 9) (For) the king being favourable to a man: the sign of [...].

(r 10) For a man's slave not to disappear: the sign of the Scorpion.

(r 11) To see a god; to undo divine wrath: the sign of the Bristle.

(r 12) To terrify a rival wife and to remove a man from his position: the sign of the Goatfish.

(r 13) To remove a man from his position of trust and to appoint a man in front of (another) man: the sign of the Hireling.

(r 14) Copy of Ur and Babylon.

(r 15) Fixed date (means) fixed day.

(r 16) Confusion (means) to turn over the insides.

(r 17) Confusion (means) to have a change of heart.

(r 18) Injustice (means) the overturning of a lawsuit.

(r 19) To relax the hands (means) relaxing, of the hands.

(r 20) To have sex with a woman (means) to have sex with a woman.

(r 21) Vertigo (means) turning of the face.

(r 22) To purify (by) the divine River (means) to cleanse a man in the river ordeal.

(r 23) To make a woman speak (means) to interrogate a woman; you have a woman enter an administrative building and she tells you everything, whatever you ask her about.

(r 27) Deposit of silver; alternatively, loss of silver (means) to reveal the silver of old jewellery of the house.

(r 29) HUL.GIG (means) hate.

(r 30) išdihu (means) profit.

(r 31) išdihu (means) income.

(r 32) To drive out shivering: shivering (is) an illness.

(r 33) Curse-removal (means) undoing a curse.

(r 34) To consign a man's effigy to UŠ₂ (means) to consign a man's effigy to death.

(r 35) EME.SIG la₃ GABA.RI (means) not receiving slander.

(r 36) To seize a ghost (means) to attach (it) to a man.

(r 37) To block the king's beloved (means) to [...] the man whom the king loves.

(r 38) To see a god (means) may the gods look at me.

(r 39) To undo divine wrath (means) to release the restless heart of the gods.

(r 40) TU₆.TU₆ BAR.RA (means) non-canonical incantations.

(r 41) Commentary and oral tradition of "The 10th day of Nisannu (Month I) is the fixed date for (rituals against) confusion".

(r 42) Tablet of Iqiša, son of Ištar-šum-ereš, descendant of Ekur-zakir, incantation priest.