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YBC 09873 (P310408)
Ritual, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | YBC 09873 |
|---|---|
| ID | P310408 |
| Museum no. | YBC 09873 |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Ritual |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 10 | (If) ditto, at his name, a liar has entered, and a house has been built, and the reed of the house |
| obverse 11 | That man stands on a lapis-lazuli stone and they drink water. |
| reverse 7 | You set up a statue of silver (and) aromatics in the middle of the house (and) in the middle of the house. |
| obverse 10 | You set up a censer of juniper, juniper, juniper, juniper, (and) juniper in the water. |
| reverse 5 | a kind of profession |
| reverse 9 | You pour (it) into a watercourse and you recite the reedbed behind it and the evil of that house will be removed. |
| obverse 4 | (If) a man's door is broken (and) he is swollen: he will die. |
| obverse 8 | ... there will be a prostitute in a man's house, either an ox or a ram, or a donkey in a man's house. |
| obverse 5 | (If) he is swollen in a man's house: there will be famine in a man's house. |
| reverse 6 | For the evil of portents and omens, the evil of a man who constantly writes in a man's house |
| reverse 12 | You strew (it) on the river and that evil of that house will be dissolved. |
| reverse 1 | lapis lazuli, Abamu-stone, dates, you put (them) on his neck. |
| obverse 3 | (If) a pigeon enters a man's house: he will enter a man's house. |
| obverse 1 | If evil omens against a man and his house are placed, a man's house will be destroyed. |
| reverse 11 | You pour (it) into a libation bowl and you mix (it). |
| obverse 2 | You stand in a man's house. |
| reverse 13 | From(?) the... of the utu-disease |
| reverse 3 | You set up a censer of juniper. You set up a libation bowl and you recite the incantation. |
| reverse 2 | kurrinnu-plant, harru-plant, harsag-plant in beer, tamarisk |
| reverse 8 | You set up a censer of juniper on the north side of the house and make the foundation of the house firm. |
| obverse 6 | ... there will be... in a man's house. |
| obverse 14 | ... by oil, may he be deprived of reeds and his brother |
| obverse 7 | ... a star stands in a man's house. |
| obverse 13 | ... and does not approach him. |
| obverse 12 | You mix oil and cypress with fig-trees (and) sea oil. You set (them) at the gate of his house. |
| obverse 9 | (If) there are evil omens in a man's house, it will not approach a man's house. |
| reverse 4 | (If) ditto, he is dressed in a garment, he is dressed in irons, |
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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