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MC 24, no. 266 (P556381)
Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | MC 24, no. 266 |
|---|---|
| ID | P556381 |
| Museum no. | BM 050522 + BM 052767 + BM 052946 + BM 077468 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
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 18' | a long-fleeced wife, a strong one, |
| obverse 9' | Do not forget your greatness, do not abandon(?) |
| obverse 24' | ... your..., do not abandon your..., whatever he has given you. |
| obverse 19' | You do not go on a night's road; her heart is good and evil. |
| reverse 12 | ama treated him, and he treated him as a pig. |
| obverse 17'b | To the one who does not disregard (the treaty) |
| reverse 14 | ... the urippaku, Arau,... the urippaku,...... |
| obverse 5' | You do not do evil. You... your heart. |
| reverse 11 | the warriors abandoned him and abandoned him like a lion |
| reverse 4 | You do not leave the city; you do not place the black-headed people. |
| reverse 23 | .... you do not approach... |
| obverse 7' | With the corpses that I have killed, you have not been able to cut off... |
| obverse 20' | You should not buy a farmland, but go to his side. |
| reverse 19 | ... the other...... |
| reverse 10 | Just as beer does not sit in a house : so may the incantation be uttered in your mind. |
| obverse 12' | You do not look at me, you do not pay attention to my debts... |
| obverse 1' | ...... the command... |
| reverse 16 | ... my words...... |
| reverse 21 | ...... |
| obverse 6' | You did not do the sapinnu-priestess, you should not... your own power. |
| reverse 9 | When he is able to smite a weapon, he will recover. If he does not stand in front of him, he will recover. |
| reverse 5 | You shall not do obeisance to him, you shall be a great... |
| obverse 2' | If you do not pay, you shall not...... |
| obverse 10' | You should not smite the corpse of the corpse... |
| obverse 3' | You do not leave the house... |
| obverse 8' | You shall not sit with me in the assembly. |
| obverse 15' | And you did not know (how to do it). |
| reverse 18 | ......... a man, a man, a man,... |
| reverse 1 | ... the field will not be abandoned; in the threshing floor they will be stationed. |
| obverse 11' | You are the one who does not fear your word. |
| reverse 8 | You do not dwell in a dwelling, you do not return the city to its place. |
| obverse 14' | (If) there is an ox or an ox or an ox or an ox or a sheep, |
| reverse 17 | from the field not... :... I did not pass by my path. |
| obverse 13' | With a stolen property, you do not make a stolen property, do not abandon your hand. |
| reverse 6 | May the Amorite lord be sated in the womb. May he rejoice over you. |
| obverse 4' | the king, his lord,... |
| obverse 22' | the queen of the queens, who does not wait for you, |
| obverse 25' | May the lord of your stolen property be taken away. That man will become hostile to you. |
| obverse 21' | I have heard that with you they have not come to you. |
| reverse 15 | he has made his life long. : My life is long, my life is long, my life is long. |
| reverse 7 | O lord of strength, do not sit down, fearless in battle. |
| reverse 3 | In a kiln you should write his own name upon the kiln. The kiln will say to you. |
| reverse 2 | will not bring you before you, will speak before you. |
| reverse 13 | He stood by the hero and your life... to ama and your life... |
| obverse 23' | May you not be negligent, may you not be negligent, may you not be negligent. |
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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