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LBAT 1597 (P364342)
Astrology; Medical, Hellenistic, Babylon · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | LBAT 1597 |
|---|---|
| ID | P364342 |
| Museum no. | BM 034731 + Sp 2, 0799 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Astrology; Medical |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 2' | ... hands and daughters ditto. |
| obverse 8' | If with the Bull of Heaven and the Shepherd a aaû-demon is a gazelle: this is an akadu-demon. |
| reverse 4' | If with the Lion, Elam, Elam, Elam, Elam, Elam, Elam, |
| reverse 5' | Labba, the name of ulmu, Itar, and u-gdim, Venus in Leo |
| reverse 8' | ... Sîn and ama SAG (means) : to die. |
| obverse 3' | If he is ill with a planet: he will recover. |
| obverse 9' | O oxherd oxen of the god Sîn, |
| reverse 6' | If with the Well-being... woman. Hand of Itar. Hand of a god. Hand of a man. |
| reverse 7' | ... Itar, shepherd, ditto. Hand of Belet-ili. |
| reverse 2' | If with the Bristle, it is swollen and teeming: the Crab. |
| reverse 3' | may Ningirsu and Anu |
| obverse 5' | If with the Old Man star a guardian of diu and rapadu (gloss: break). |
| reverse 10' | ... na (gauge) |
| obverse 7' | If the Well-being reaches the Pleiades: there will be famine and hunger. |
| reverse 1' | If with the Twins, Antassu and Lugalura, the Twins, Lugalura and Meslamtaea |
| obverse 6' | the city of ulpa’e, the lord |
| obverse 1' | If...... good....... |
| obverse 4' | If Mercury comes close to it with Mercury: his brothers will rule the house. |
| reverse 9' | ...... |
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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