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Fs Sachs 277-283 (P286478)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Fs Sachs 277-283 |
|---|---|
| ID | P286478 |
| Museum no. | YBC 16934 |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| col 2 1 | If... |
| col 2 10 | If... |
| col 2 11 | If... |
| col 2 2 | If... |
| col 2 3 | If... |
| col 2 4 | If... |
| col 2 5 | If... |
| col 2 6 | If... |
| col 2 9 | If... |
| col 3 1' | If... |
| col 4 3' | According to the wording of the tablet, |
| col 4 4' | 30-year-olds, son of Gaul-Tutu, exorcist. |
| col 3 10' | If a TU bird |
| col 3 8' | If a TU bird |
| col 3 9' | If a TU bird |
| col 1 17 | If a pigeon is facing and... |
| col 1 14 | The troops... |
| col 4 6' | Tablet of Nabû-mutir-gimilli, son of the uu-priest. |
| col 1 20 | ... lord(?) |
| col 1 15 | If a snake is swollen and he is ill: our troops. |
| col 1 2 | If a pigeon... and does not have a house: that house will be destroyed. |
| col 1 9 | If a ewe gives birth to a lion or a bird and that it is like that of a bird: to a man's house, ditto. |
| col 1 12 | a lion is spotted in a man's house. |
| col 1 4 | If a pigeon takes place in the window of a man's house: that house will take its hand. |
| col 4 2' | If a city is set on a height: |
| col 3 7' | If a snake... |
| col 4 1' | ... tablet of Anu- 15-year-old |
| col 1 10 | If a pigeon catches a bird on a city: that city will be destroyed. |
| col 1 7 | owner of that house being sold. |
| col 1 16 | If a pigeon is surrounded by a halo, and it is covered by a flood(?) |
| col 1 18 | If a pigeon... |
| col 3 6' | If a bird... |
| col 1 1 | If a pigeon is located in a man's house: a claim will arise. |
| col 1 8 | If a pigeon eats a bird in a man's house: either a bird or 2 oxen. |
| col 1 5 | If a pigeon eats a bird in a man's house: that house will become confused. |
| col 3 3' | If a dove... |
| col 3 4' | If a dove... |
| col 3 5' | If a dove... |
| col 4 5' | Marduk-ndin-aê, scribe, scribe. |
| col 1 3 | ... a man's house gives birth. |
| col 1 6 | If a pigeon eats a bird in the lap of a man's house: either a bird or a bird will eat a maru-bird and its interest will be diminished. |
| col 3 2' | If a dove... |
| col 1 13 | If a pigeon becomes visible on the city and on the city. |
| col 1 11 | If a snake strikes a man on a city and he is constantly ill. |
| col 1 19 | ... thin... |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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