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BOC pl. 56 BM 040216 (P480384)
Divination, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BOC pl. 56 BM 040216 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480384 |
| Museum no. | BM 040216 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 4 | ... my.... I have given orders. |
| obverse 4 | "Did you see him in the morning?" |
| reverse 3' | 24 (times) from the table (?). |
| obverse 10 | By ama ditto, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, who now... |
| obverse 5 | May so-and-so, the physician, be attentive, and |
| reverse 5 | ... [...]... [...]... [...] |
| obverse 6 | May... work on him. May he perform the work. |
| obverse 7 | The physician (is) sick, sick, and eats bread of his body. |
| obverse 8 | Does your great divinity know it? |
| obverse 2 | If he is ill and he is ill, he will recover. |
| reverse 2' | The oracle query has become jumbled. |
| obverse 3 | 'and the black and black are scattered, and your great divinity will die. |
| obverse 9 | The oracle query has become jumbled. |
| reverse 2 | ..... as he had planned, his man |
| obverse 12 | ... and your great divinity |
| reverse 3 | ... illness and bread will afflict his body |
| obverse 1 | (If) ama ditto, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, who now has a sick person, |
| obverse 11 | ... or a ghost will die and |
| reverse 6 | he strews... to the... |
| reverse 1 | ... [...]... [...]... [...]... [...] |
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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