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 w...