Cuneiform Tablet: Tablet 3 of the Series Utukki Lemnuti in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008

Cuneiform Tablet: Tablet 3 of the Series Utukki Lemnuti
Clay
Mesopotamia, probably Babylon
Seleucid period, 3rd-2nd century BC

Accession # 86.11.379a-f

Utukki Lemnuti, a series of incantations against attack by demons and ghosts, was recorded on cuneiform tablets from the mid-third millennium BC to the third century BC. Tablet 3 describes the role of the incantation priest in diagnosing the cause of illness.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.