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BM 051460 (P549613)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 051460 |
|---|---|
| ID | P549613 |
| Museum no. | BM 051460 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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 10' | The day of the moon's disappearance, the day of your oath, |
| obverse 6' | Your utterance, like ama, your heir |
| obverse 8' | The great gods greet you and give advice... |
| obverse 7' | At your appearance,... the great gods... decision. |
| obverse 9' | The moon is a upû-priest in(?) the Ekur, he is assiduous towards you, and the oath of the gods is given. |
| reverse 1' | Let me sing your praises forever! |
| obverse 2' | Your praise is sweet like Gira |
| obverse 3' | Your praises, from the wide ground |
| obverse 5' | Anu of the heavens, whose utterance cannot be changed, |
| reverse 3' | Its ritual: You set up a table before Sin. |
| obverse 1' | Your utterance in the pure heavens |
| obverse 4' | May the ugdaaru-disease be released for me. |
| reverse 2' | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer to Suen |
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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