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BM 038342 (P461168)
Commentary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038342 |
|---|---|
| ID | P461168 |
| Museum no. | BM 038342 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 1' | Beloved of Marduk, supporter of Babylon! |
| 8'a | ama, lord of destinies, |
| 6'a | You write a tablet without interruption, variant: |
| 5'b | You set up a luminosity without interruption. |
| 2'b | By your command the gods of the Igigi |
| 7' | Father of the gods, lord of the Igigi |
| 2' | he will be able to withstand your light. : : |
| 5'a | The scepter of the heavens is sprinkling. |
| 6'b | You write in the ninnu-vessel the flesh. |
| 3' | The vast people are frightened by the black-headed people. |
| 9' | May my dreams be long, my dreams be long. |
| 4'a | ... you recite to her the incantation "...." |
| 8'b | a favorable destiny, a favorable destiny, |
| 4'b | You give the heir to an unceasing one. |
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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