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LBAT 1535 + 1536 (P364285)
Astrology, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | LBAT 1535 + 1536 |
|---|---|
| ID | P364285 |
| Museum no. | BM 034626 + BM 034922 + Sp 2, 0420 + Sp 3, 0420 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Astrology |
| 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' | ... rain which... |
| col 2' 8' | (If) an eclipse takes place in the west in the middle of the fourth gate. |
| col 2' 21' | ...... |
| col 1' 11' | ... and |
| col 2' 15' | ... evil, omen, and news of an eclipse with...... |
| col 1' 5' | ...... |
| col 2' 16' | and a scepter of the 3rd gate of ama, rain in the west |
| col 1' 15' | ...... |
| col 2' 11' | ... of the 6th gate, which cannot be changed, in the morning,... |
| col 2' 13' | (If) on the 28th day ama is surrounded by a halo and Sin stands in it |
| col 1' 9' | ... and the gods |
| col 1' 10' | ... speak |
| col 1' 12' | ... and Sin |
| col 1' 6' | ... speak |
| col 2' 14' | alternatively, on the 1st day: Mercury will approach and the wording of a lunar eclipse.... |
| col 1' 7' | ... |
| col 1' 2' | ... of the second |
| col 1' 1' | ... he will recover. |
| col 2' 10' | The fifth day, ama stood inside the halo of the moon. |
| col 1' 3' | ... before ama |
| col 2' 2' | ... of the 14th day... |
| col 2' 5' | on the 28th day... Duuzu and abau Mercury |
| col 2' 17' | If the Moon at its appearance is seen on the 29th day.... |
| col 1' 13' | ...... |
| col 2' 3' | ... 5 times...... |
| col 1' 8' | ...... 3 times |
| col 2' 19' | emerges and their mountains....... |
| col 2' 12' | If the Moon at its appearance appears like the fourth day on the 28th and a tree.... |
| col 2' 7' | (Property) of the second gate in Simanu (Month III), the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month), Mercury approached him and was low: Arbela |
| col 2' 4' | (If) the Moon... on the 28th day: the face of the scepter |
| col 2' 9' | (If) in Simanu (Month III), on the 28th day Mercury comes close to the moon and Mercury.... |
| col 2' 6' | (If) on the nth day... an eclipse takes place and the Westland. |
| col 1' 4' | ... ubbula(?) |
| col 2' 18' | Ditto: death of Guti,... of the god... |
| col 2' 20' | (If) the moon... with him:.... |
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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