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CTMMA 2, 071 (P412242)
Astral sciences, Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | CTMMA 2, 071 |
|---|---|
| ID | P412242 |
| Museum no. | MMA 86.11.287a-c + MMA 86.11.503 |
| Collection | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Astral sciences |
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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | ... GID2.DA (means) : araku (means) : GID2.DA (means) : shalputu (means) : alternatively, the fourth day, the 16th day. |
| reverse 12 | ... alternatively, the stars appear: on the day or on the day or Jupiter. |
| reverse 18 | ... an eclipse, alternatively,... of the second gate... |
| 4' | ...... on the 16th day it goes in front of the sun and the second gate.... |
| 15' | ... of evil... : distress to...... |
| reverse 6 | ... on the 14th day there is an eclipse and next to the 15th day. |
| 13' | ...... is seen and the sixteenth day goes out and :...... |
| reverse 17 | ...... you eat... : UH.SZE.GU.E (means) : you eat...... |
| reverse 4 | ... and furthermore, the foundations... |
| reverse 13 | ... (gloss: new break) of the second part of Jupiter. |
| reverse 1 | ... appears and alternatively, in the east there is an eclipse; the end of the month...... |
| reverse 16 | ... is seen. The second part of the second part of the night is seen. |
| reverse 9 | ... on the 20th day it appears in the middle of the sky and alternatively it appears in the middle of the sky. |
| 18' | ...... : the eyes... he... and Mercury :... |
| 16' | If he is stricken like a lion, he will be stricken... and he will recover. |
| 5' | ... on the sixteenth day... : the citizens of the city will be finished. |
| 9' | ... alternatively, on the 1st day it is small. |
| reverse 7 | ... emerges in front of the 20th... and the second one is located on the day of the eclipse. |
| reverse 8 | ...... which comes out on a day, an eclipse is set. : alternatively, the moon is surrounded by a halo and it is bright. |
| 17' | In the middle of the sky it appears and... an eclipse will take place and... as much as there will be. |
| reverse 5 | ...... and...... alternatively, Mercury approaches him :... :... : to be low (means) : to be low (means) : to be low (means) : to be low (means) : to be low (means) : to be low (means) : to be low. |
| reverse 15 | ... becomes visible on the 14th day and is seen on the second day. |
| reverse 2 | ... is seen and as much as the 4.5th day is carried off. |
| 8' | ...... on the first day he will give birth and :...... :... : he will recover. |
| reverse 10 | (If) he sees either a day, a day, a day, or a day, he sees a lunar eclipse and is identical with one among the planets: |
| 7' | ... its horns... |
| 10' | There is a hole in the gall bladder. The moon is in its womb. |
| 14' | ...... the land will not become hostile to the king : UD.GA.D2.DA means : stag... |
| reverse 11 | ... enters a star and approaches the second gate and approaches the third gate: in an eclipse, like a small star... |
| 1' | ............... an eclipse... |
| 11' | (If) he sees a snare on his dream: on the 30th day he will go in front of the sun and the moon will go in front of the sun. |
| 2' | ... there is an eclipse and the land will eat... which comes out... |
| 3' | ... you set up... for five times....... |
| 12' | If he is ill in his dream: he will reach the highest rank on the 15th day. |
| reverse 14 | ... Jupiter becomes visible and the field will prosper. Ditto (gloss: break). |
| reverse 3 | ...... rabashu-disease (means) : which is two : aburrish... |
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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