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BWL pl. 67 BM 038539 (P404904)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BWL pl. 67 BM 038539 |
|---|---|
| ID | P404904 |
| Museum no. | BM 038539 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [...] ⸢x x-ra⸣ [...] | ... the ... of |
| 2' | [...] ⸢x⸣ e ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢x addir x⸣ [...] | ... addir ... |
| 4' | [...] ⸢tuku⸣-a-ŋu₁₀-ne [...] | ... when they speak to you(?) |
| 5' | [... nu-ŋar]-⸢ra⸣ tu-ud-⸢da-ŋu₁₀⸣-ne ⸢x⸣-[...] | (Sum) The one who does not enter (Akk) You do not enter, you do not leave |
| 6' | [... nu-ŋar]-⸢ra e₂⸣-a til₃-la ⸢aš₂⸣-[...] | To the one who does not enter the house, to the one living in the house |
| 7' | [...]-⸢sag₃⸣-ga diri-ga a-⸢sak⸣-[...] | ... surpassing in strength |
| 8' | [...] ⸢x⸣-še₃ na-an-de₂-e is-su-u₂ [...] | ... should not approach the eše temple |
| 9' | [...]-⸢bi⸣ u₂-⸢da⸣ na-an-⸢mu₂-mu₂⸣ i-ta-ti-⸢šu₂ x⸣-[...] | (Sum) ... does not come out (Akk) Do not go out(?) to its ..., do not enter it |
| 10' | [...] ⸢x⸣ na-an-⸢x-e⸣ pa-ru-u₂ ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... should not ..., the enemy should not |
| 11' | [...] ⸢x-da⸣-še₃ na-an-ak-e ina še-pi-šu₂ ⸢la⸣ [...] | ... he should not do ... with a scepter |
| 12' | [...] ⸢x x u₃⸣-gu₃ ba-an-de₂-e tu-ut-ta-⸢ma⸣ [...] | ... he shouted ... |
| 13' | [... da]-ri₂-še₃ al-ŋar ta-nam-di-ma ana ⸢da⸣-[...] | (Sum) ... forever, you roam around (Akk) You roam around forever, and to the E-da-e-[...] |
| 14' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ ab-ta-si-eš ṣu-hu ut-ti-⸢ir⸣ ha ba ⸢NI⸣ [...] | (Sum) ... I have strewn ... (Akk) I have heaped up ... for you, I have mixed ... |
| 15' | [...] ⸢x⸣ HUR-⸢re⸣ ša₂ i-sa-an-[ni-qu ...] | ... the ḫur-rēšû-plant that was cut off |
| 16' | [...]-⸢su⸣-ub-⸢be₂⸣ i-na-aš-ši-qa [...] | ... he shall remove |
| 17' | [...] ⸢x⸣-e-NE e-RIN [...] | ... e’e-NE |
| 18' | [...]-da ša₂ e-gi-i e-RIN [...] | ... the heart of a princess |
| 19' | [...] ⸢x⸣-a | ... the ea temple |
| 20' | [...] ⸢x⸣-KA ar-ki-šu₂ i-⸢ka⸣-[...] | ... his father, when he enters |
| 21' | [...]-⸢x⸣-su₃ e-lip til-mun x-[...] | ... his ..., the one who abandons life ... |
| 22' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] |
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
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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