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BM 034992 (P557262)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 034992 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557262 |
| Museum no. | BM 034992 |
| 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? col 1' 15' | ...... |
| reverse? col 1' 6' | ... give... to you,....,...., |
| reverse? col 1' 2' | ... his |
| obverse? col 1 8 | ..................... |
| reverse? col 1' 13' | ... your enemy to good... |
| obverse? col 1 6 | ... will die and the sea will be destroyed. |
| obverse? col 1 14 | ... enters |
| obverse? col 1 7 | ... will die and he will be seized. |
| obverse? col 1 1 | ... the king who...... |
| reverse? col 1' 4' | ... of enemy troops |
| reverse? col 1' 3' | ... his... |
| obverse? col 1 3 | ... his lord emerges in... |
| obverse? col 1 12 | ... he gave |
| obverse? col 1 9 | ... the water(?) of the land |
| reverse? col 1' 14' | ... not a trough... |
| obverse? col 1 13 | ... Adad will devastate |
| reverse? col 1' 12' | ...... his...... |
| reverse? col 1' 8' | This is the... which... |
| obverse? col 1 4 | ... evils...... |
| reverse? col 1' 1' | ...... |
| reverse? col 1' 5' | ... did not... eat... |
| reverse? col 1' 9' | ... and between them... |
| obverse? col 2 1' | ... |
| obverse? col 2 2' | ... |
| reverse? col 1' 11' | ... of...... |
| obverse? col 1 11 | The water(?) of the land will overturn |
| reverse? col 1' 7' | ...... |
| obverse? col 1 5 | .... whose hands are seized and... |
| obverse? col 1 2 | ... the king's hands will not fall... |
| reverse? col 1' 10' | ........... |
| obverse? col 1 10 | ... I brought... |
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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