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MC 24, no. 271 (P556402)
CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Debate poems, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | MC 24, no. 271 |
|---|---|
| ID | P556402 |
| Museum no. | BM 068586 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Debate poems |
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 6 | ... my |
| obverse 1 | He took (it) to a forest and from his garden |
| reverse 7' | ... you slander him, and as if it were a slander |
| reverse 1' | ... his mouth |
| reverse 8' | (If) a lion opens his mouth and he strews a word about it. |
| reverse 4' | ...... your... in the earth |
| reverse 6' | ...... you will see him before you and |
| reverse 3' | ...... is dead and |
| obverse 5 | ...... in my presence |
| obverse 3b | ... may he speak... |
| obverse 4 | ...... he is well. |
| reverse 5' | ...... what do they know? |
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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