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BM 035654 (P557312)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 035654 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557312 |
| Museum no. | BM 035654 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | If the Standing Gods of Ekur |
| 1' | If a star stands in the head of Marduk: the Ewe, Aya. |
| 9' | If the Bristle of the Kidney Star, the Lamassu, the vizier of Babu |
| 11' | If the Field (is) Nergal : If the star which stands at its right side, the ahu (is) Damu. |
| 5' | If the Lions of Ekur |
| 7' | If the Kidney Star (is) Gula |
| 13' | If a star stands behind it: the Scorpion, the vizier. |
| 14' | If the stars of the armies which lie on the breast of a man |
| 12' | If a star stands in its left horn: the She-Goat. |
| 2' | If the Field, Anu, the great Anu of heaven |
| 8' | If a star stands in front of ulgi: lion. |
| 3' | If the Wagon of Heaven and Earth |
| 4' | If a star stands in its horn: the Old Man, the first-born son of Anu. |
| 10' | If two stars stand behind it: Nidintu and Erra. |
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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