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BM 132588 (P480503)
CANONICAL > Historiography > Legal, Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM 132588 |
|---|---|
| ID | P480503 |
| Museum no. | BM 132588 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Historiography > Legal |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse col 1 12' | Ditto, ditto; just as a bird in a trap has seized, |
| obverse col 1 11' | May your sons and your daughters not return to your houses. |
| obverse col 1 9' | Ditto; just as a burdi-shahu-bowl does not exist, so may she(?) be present in her... |
| obverse col 1 14' | Ditto, ditto; your flesh and the flesh of your women, your brothers and your sons. |
| obverse col 1 16' | Ditto; just as a eruu-disease has smeared me, |
| obverse col 1 8' | Let them be brought to you, let them be killed. |
| obverse col 1 15' | May your daughters be as clean as the kiln of the naphtu-vessel. |
| obverse col 1 2' | ... may you shave... |
| obverse col 1 5' | as a gift |
| obverse col 1 10' | If you do not send me, let me send you to your women. |
| obverse col 1 17' | You shall remove your women, your brothers, your sons and your daughters from the hands of your enemy. |
| obverse col 1 7' | your brothers, your sons, |
| obverse col 1 13' | May your brothers and your sons be placed in the hands of your blood! |
| obverse col 2 2' | of the Uti of Babylon |
| obverse col 1 1' | ... not... |
| obverse col 1 4' | The bow should be placed in your hands. Your chariot |
| obverse col 1 3' | Ditto; may all the gods, as many as are written on this treaty tablet, make your bow bow down at the feet of your enemy. |
| obverse col 2 1' | and Nergal |
| obverse col 1 6' | Ditto; just as the water is poured, Ekun |
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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