hello! i sent an ask earlier but let me rephrase. is there any protection tablet you know of that has an every day protection incantation? i’m very spiritual and would like a phrase to write in cuneiform for my protection. I know of the word Ḫulbazizi, which is similar to “evil be gone” but could you help translate a phrase like “evil be gone, may the gods protect every step i take” thank you so much ❤️ it’s so hard to find people who understand cuneiform!
Hello! I did some sleuthing and here's what I've found. The hulbazizi incantations are a set of inscriptions that are mostly in the Akkadian language, dating to later than the Sumerian period, though they often use Sumerian words (or sometimes nonsense Sumerian-like words) in amongst the Akkadian. They most often appear on amulets and protective charms rather than full-size tablets - here's one in the Schoyen collection. They're called that from the Sumerian words hul 𒅆𒌨 "evil" + zi 𒍣 "to destroy", in the passive form bazizi 𒁀𒍣𒍣 "it is destroyed", which is used as an incipit (first words) of some of them, but doesn't appear in every one. Check out Bácskay & Niederreiter 2022 for a bunch of examples. You may also be interested in van Dijk et. al. 1985 (full text from Yale here), which has a large number of incantation spells but unfortunately isn't searchable.
My twitch chat helped me out with our own translation of the phrase you requested, though I don't know of it appearing anywhere in the cuneiform corpus of course. "Deities" is dingirene 𒀭𒊑𒉈, and "to protect" is ngal 𒅅, in the form "may (they) protect (it)" appearing as hebngalene, which I believe would be 𒃶𒅁𒅅𒂊𒉈 in cuneiform. The word for "step, footstep" in Sumerian is the same as the word for "foot", ngiri 𒄊 - and the most Sumerian-ish way I'd translate the end of the phrase is simply as "all (shar) my (-ngu) footsteps", ngirisharngu 𒄊𒊹𒈬.
Putting it together, I'd translate this phrase as Hul bazizi, dingirene ngirisharngu hebngalene "Evil be destroyed, may the deities protect all my footsteps", written 𒅆𒌨 𒁀𒍣𒍣 𒀭𒊑𒉈 𒄊𒊹𒈬 𒃶𒅁𒅅𒂊𒉈 in cuneiform. Let me know if this translation works for you!