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BM 033772 (P557233)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 033772 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557233 |
| Museum no. | BM 033772 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | ... and the remission of the temples of the gods... |
| 9' | ... the lands... year 10, ditto, year 40... |
| 1' | ...... |
| 11' | If the Old Man's stars are...: there will be a harvest in that year. |
| 14' | If the Old Man reaches the halo and its gate towards the north: that wall in that year in Subartu. |
| 12' | If the Old Man - a halo is surrounded by a halo: in that year there will be famine in the land. |
| 15' | If the Old Man - a halo is surrounded by a halo and its gate towards the east: that wall in that year in Elam. |
| 5' | ... Arar, the land |
| 4' | ...... of the sea, on the day of its disappearance, he will die... |
| 2' | ......... |
| 3' | ...... 30... |
| 16' | If the Old Man - a halo is surrounded by a halo and its gate towards the west: the wall of the year will change; in the Westland. |
| 7' | ... halo of a rainbow ditto! |
| 8' | ... an eclipse of the stars occurred in the land, which... |
| 13' | If the Old Man is surrounded by a halo and its gate is open to the south: in that year in Uruk. |
| 10' | If the Old Man's stars are very wide: there will be a harvest in that year. |
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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