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BM 032788 (P557187)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 032788 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557187 |
| Museum no. | BM 032788 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Astral sciences |
| 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 1 | The evil gods, evildoers, men who do not obey |
| obverse 5' | he smote him, and he smote his mouth. |
| reverse 4 | The evil gods, who are like a flood, are destroying the land. |
| reverse 3 | The evil gods, like the floods, the life of the land and the cities |
| obverse 3' | Ea heard that word in Apsu |
| obverse 2' | ... his lord... the Aena(?) |
| reverse 5 | as if (it were) a flood in the land, as if it were a flood(?) |
| reverse 2 | Their supplications are evil gods, they are unalterable. |
| obverse 8' | to come to my son : to go to the aid of Marduk : |
| obverse 10' | The moon which is bright in the sky is bright. |
| obverse 4' | He cut off its seed, he cut off its mouth. |
| obverse 11' | Its supplication(?) came forth in heaven |
| obverse 6' | Enki, his son, spoke to Asalluhi: |
| obverse 7' | Ea his (personal) god Marduk struck and the words he caused to be released. |
| obverse 9' | The princely son, the one who makes the light shine in heaven, is bitter |
| reverse 6 | At the beginning of the month, the reed basket of Sîn was seized. |
| obverse 12' | They are the ones who sit in the heavens. |
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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