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ADART 4, p. 116, BM 032413+ (P556831)

Astral sciences, Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE

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Designation	ADART 4, p. 116, BM 032413+
ID	P556831
Museum no.	BM 032413 + BM 032579
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
Genre	Astral sciences

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)
col 1' 2'	... behind
col 1' 14'	... cubits... is black
col 1' 18'	... Venus
col 1' 3'	... gusty wind, rain DUL
col 1' 16'	...... end of the month,... 1 pnu
col 1' 5'	... sunset to setting of Mercury: 4° 30'; it was bright. The 14th, sunrise to moonset: 30'; I did not watch.
col 1' 11'	... Night of the 20th, first part of the night, Mars
col 1' 4'	... the 3rd, 10th, (and) 4th, measured
col 1' 6'	... Mars was below Tauri
col 1' 8'	... Ophiuchi; clouds were in the sky.
col 1' 9'	... high; around the 14th, moonrise to sunrise: 15°
col 1' 20'	... the pure mountain(?)
col 1' 17'	... to
col 1' 7'	... milk
col 1' 19'	... the troops
col 1' 15'	... month, eponym year of
col 1' 10'	...... last part of the night, the moon was

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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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