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BM 036781 + BM 037100 + BM 037412 (P461144)
Commentary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 036781 + BM 037100 + BM 037412 |
|---|---|
| ID | P461144 |
| Museum no. | BM 036781 + BM 037100 + BM 037412 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Commentary |
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) |
|---|---|
| 20 | ... emerges in its midst: ama will come out and... will place... |
| 12 | ... there will be... and he will die. The king will be strong and he will die. : For the king, alternatively, Gilgamesh and Mercury... |
| 14 | ... : to the king he will not be good |
| 7 | ...... after... : to go out :.... |
| 16 | ...... : nadû of the barley : nadu-dû-disease : nadu-disease : nadu-disease : nadu-disease : naqtu-disease : b-disease of the great stars. The moon is a shadow of the watch of the city. |
| 19 | ... ama : GILIM (means) : DUR (means) : GILIM (means) : U4.SAKAR (means) :... |
| 17 | ...... :... the stars of the arms (and) the moon are surrounded by a mountain(?) |
| 3 | ... in the month of Dilduri Mercury and the god enter inside it : |
| 4 | ...... : TAG (means) : a star stands in the left side of the moon. |
| 25 | ... stands there. 3 stars stand there. In that year, sesame will prosper. :... |
| 8 | ... stand with him in the west :... a star in front of the Moon. |
| 11 | ...... which came out............ |
| 9 | ... :... : Wherever he is, he will lay... :... :... :... |
| 15 | ............... a star on the right and left of the Moon... Mercury in ama and Tuua |
| 1 | ... in the east |
| 6 | ... : u (means) : he will be satisfied. : (If) a talent of a garden, alternatively the Pleiades come close to the front of the Moon : evil. : (If) there are moths in the rear of the Moon. |
| 21 | ...... and 6 dnu his man did not(?)... |
| 2 | ...... the moon stands (there) : a god enters inside it (means) :... |
| 22 | ... you recite... in his midst and she will make... appear in their midst. |
| 23 | ... is split and you wrap (it) into a lunar eclipse, alternatively...... |
| 27 | ...-tu (means) : to smite : to smite |
| 13 | ...... : b... : b utalu-su (means) : he-lu-su (means) : to see. : b b i.e., i.e., b i.e., b i.e., b i.e., b i.e., b umma means “to go” |
| 26 | ... br |
| 10 | ... you sit... : you sit to the land (and) the evil :.... |
| 18 | (If) a star... from the top of the sky to its left: two arrows of white cloud will be set. : alternatively, there will be a lunar eclipse. |
| 28 | ... alternatively... |
| 5 | ... the sun is eclipsed and the lower one is Mercury and Dilda.... |
| 24 | ... in the month of the watch, on the day of the eponym year of... |
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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