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BM 033530 (P557218)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 033530 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557218 |
| Museum no. | BM 033530 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 5 | If the day reaches the Field, cedar, cypress, juniper, house.... |
| obverse 9 | ... of the gods,..., |
| obverse 6 | The decision of horses and chariots with the king.... |
| obverse 2 | If the day reaches the Pleiades and the Pleiades:... barley.... |
| obverse 7 | If the day reaches the Pisces....... |
| obverse 1 | By the command of the lord and the goddess Bltiya may it go well. |
| reverse 2' | ...... |
| obverse 4 | dates, decisions of the land Elam,... |
| obverse 10 | If... with the Twins.... |
| obverse 8 | ... Babylon and the palace... |
| obverse 11 | ......... |
| obverse 3 | (If) ditto (a man, as for) a cucumber, a cucumber, ditto (and) the flood is fish, the farmer or... |
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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