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BM 048042 (P461239)

Commentary, Neo-Babylonian, unclear · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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DesignationBM 048042
IDP461239
Museum no.BM 048042
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreCommentary
Find spotunclear

English translation

By nn · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3'[... (means)] uprooted guqānu-disease. IGI.[GU.LÁ (means) ...]
Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4'[...] ... a “dark cloud” (is related to) “to be da[rk” ...],
Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5'[...] since old, ... copper which in the ma[rsh ...].

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1'[...] ⸢x x-su x x⸣ [...]
2'[...] ⸢x⸣-ne ⸢ka-du x⸣ [...]
3'[...] ⸢gu⸣-qa-nu ZI{ha} ⸢IGI⸣.[GU.LA₂ (ZI{ha)} ...]
4'[...]-u₂ DUNGU GE₆ a-⸢da⸣-[ru ...]
5'[...] ⸢aš₂⸣-šu₂ URUDU SUMUN KAL-ku ša₂ ina ⸢AMBAR⸣ [...]
6'[...] ⸢x⸣-LU-pa-a gu-⸢x IR₃⸣ [...]
7'[...] ⸢x x x x⸣ [...]

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