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BM 035641 (P557310)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 035641 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557310 |
| Museum no. | BM 035641 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 1' 7' | ...... |
| obverse col 2' 7 | If ditto... to the great gods |
| obverse col 2' 4 | If ulpa’e |
| reverse col 1' 1' | If a star |
| reverse col 1' 3' | If the... star |
| reverse col 1' 2' | in the place of... |
| obverse col 2' 1 | If Jupiter....... |
| obverse col 2' 2 | The king... |
| reverse col 1' 6' | in the region of the star |
| obverse col 2' 8 | ... his enemy(?) |
| reverse col 1' 4' | in the area of the Scorpion... |
| obverse col 2' 5 | DU-u (means) : he is a king... |
| obverse col 2' 9 | ... to Jupiter... |
| obverse col 2' 6 | If ditto... Venus....... |
| obverse col 2' 3 | ... Akkad and the land Elam... |
| reverse col 1' 5' | If the Scorpion.... |
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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