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MC 25, 406 (P556449)
CANONICAL > Literature > Taboo Text (CBS 16 and duplicates), Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | MC 25, 406 |
|---|---|
| ID | P556449 |
| Museum no. | BM 041288 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Taboo Text (CBS 16 and duplicates) |
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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 17 | ... great..., king of the gods, said and |
| obverse 8' | (If) he sees a fowler: Aala will name Enlil and Aala. |
| obverse 4' | (If) a enenmau bird and the name of Enlil is named by Enlil to Anar and he will recover. |
| reverse 20 | of the people(?) |
| reverse 14 | ...... Enlil |
| obverse 24' | ... they smote him and... they did not come out. |
| reverse 11 | ......... from the lord |
| reverse 1 | ...... the lady...... |
| reverse 18 | ...... in all the gods... |
| reverse 2 | ... the chariot(?)... new break |
| reverse 16 | ... he named it. |
| reverse 22 | ............ |
| obverse 21' | ... of the god Enlil, who goes at the side of the gods, |
| obverse 9' | (If) the Capricorn (is) the name of Enki, the name of Enki (is) the name of Enlil and Enlil. |
| reverse 5 | ... Ningublaga(?) |
| reverse 6 | ... a musukkannu-tree...... he conquered, his extispicy |
| obverse 5' | The eebû-bird (is) Kiar. |
| obverse 17' | ... you see and speak to him. |
| reverse 19 | ............... |
| obverse 13' | ... their... I returned them. I did not abandon them. |
| obverse 1' | ... the land/mountain |
| reverse 7 | to the chariot of the lady... and |
| reverse 21 | .................. |
| obverse 23' | ... of the god Enlil, who goes at the horn of the name of the lords, |
| reverse 9 | ... tamarisk... with him... he will not die. |
| obverse 22' | ... the name of the god Enlil he smote them (and) they smote them. |
| reverse 8 | ... his...... to... |
| obverse 11' | (If) a fish: (If) the name of the gods (= EAE 24(25) I 20) (means): he will die. |
| obverse 12' | ...... and does not come out |
| reverse 4 | .... you are..., you speak... |
| reverse 13 | ....... |
| reverse 15 | ... above(?) |
| obverse 20' | ... of Nippur with the sword of women. |
| obverse 3' | (If) a bird and the Old Man - the name of the Enlil of the Old Man is pronounced and its appearance does not exist |
| obverse 6' | (If) a pigeon (is) an amursikku-bird: Enlil, son of the sons of the gods, who swore and swore before him: |
| obverse 7' | (If) a pigeon, named Ea, son of Ea, descendant of the gods, and their horns kill |
| obverse 15' | ...... which... wide... and its base in front of it |
| obverse 16' | ...... my brother... |
| obverse 18' | ... they will die...: the god Enlil will go and |
| obverse 19' | ... will not live. The god Enlil, his sage, will come out from his mouth. |
| obverse 10' | (If) he is a fisherman (or a fisherman) (or) a fisherman (or) a fisherman (or) a fisherman (or) a fisherman (or) a fisherman (or) one of the gods: |
| reverse 3 | ... they will smite him and they will smite him. |
| reverse 23 | ... he/they(?) |
| obverse 14' | ...... to the steppe Ea and that |
| obverse 2' | (If) a TU bird and Nergal go to Nippur: he will place (it) with a woman to the evil weapon of her head. |
| reverse 10 | ... new..... EnTAR and |
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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