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BM 038903 (P551811)
Incantation, Achaemenid, Babylon · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038903 |
|---|---|
| ID | P551811 |
| Museum no. | BM 038903 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Achaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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 land......... the river... |
| obverse 11' | ... death not...... he seized(?) anything |
| obverse 4' | Lady of the lands |
| reverse 7 | Like(?) |
| obverse 9' | ... the weapon... Anu |
| reverse 5 | reed oil |
| reverse 4 | Incantation: O uh(?), sag/erim(?) |
| reverse 1 | ............ |
| obverse 5' | ......... |
| obverse 8' | Its ritual: you recite...,...,...,..., |
| reverse 6 | Like(?) |
| obverse 7' | And your true command that cannot be changed(?) |
| obverse 2' | According to the mouth of |
| obverse 3' | The reedbed...... |
| obverse 6' | In the... of |
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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