<b>Bīt mēseri at Aššur</b>

Abstract A 191, a Neo-Assyrian tablet from the Haus des Beschwörungspriesters in Aššur, preserves instructions for performance of an apotropaic ritual called Bīt mēseri (“house enclosure”). The tablet, which is edited here first time, offers version ceremony that markedly different standard known other first-millennium sources found at Nineveh, and various Babylonian sites. Whereas core rites with their images (figurines paintings) are far less complex than counterparts ritual, attested on 191 also includes elements absent sources. These include Pazuzu rite, ointments, burning incense, all āšipūtu (exorcistic) text series, such as Muššuʾu, Qutāru, Zi-pà Compendium, Compendium.