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BM 033771 (P557232)

Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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Designation	BM 033771
ID	P557232
Museum no.	BM 033771
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)
2'	azû-flour,......... :
11'	in the midst of life, may they stand by your feet.
6'	to eat : a libation bowl which is in the middle of that man’s name :
8'	May he make the heart of his colder hand rejoice over you :
7'	In the midst of the evil demons, may they overthrow you :
9'	May your throne be returned to their places.
10'	May water and water flow in your mouth.
3'	the uddatabû-demon of the imria-demon (is) : the oath of the scepter, the scepter of the scepter, the scepter of the namtar-demon
5'	the utukku-offering of the dream-interpreter, as much as there is,
12'	to the well-being of his god for the life
4'	ib-priestess of the evildoer ulak, guardian of 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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