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BM 032559 (P557170)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 032559 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557170 |
| Museum no. | BM 032559 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Omens |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 3' | ... the teeming(?) bird |
| obverse 7' | ... people in...... |
| reverse 11' | ... 5 times... |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 3' | ...... |
| obverse 4' | ...... |
| reverse 7' | ...... like... on the right... |
| reverse 9' | ... in three years... |
| obverse 6' | ... the son of the king of the land |
| reverse 5' | ... three years to... |
| reverse 2' | ... date palm(?) |
| reverse 10' | ...... |
| reverse 8' | ... in 15 years fire(?) to the enemy(?) |
| reverse 4' | ... (In) Simanu (Month III) (in) the beginning of the year, a word will be placed. (In) Simanu (Month III) |
| reverse 6' | ... year 1... |
| obverse 5' | ...... daughter |
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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