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BM 036834 (P557479)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 036834 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557479 |
| Museum no. | BM 036834 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Astrology |
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 4' | ... will be destroyed and |
| obverse 4 | If in the land, the sun is 2 cubits in front of the sun:.... |
| reverse 2' | ... is favourable |
| obverse 7 | If in the land the sun... the king is present and the gods of the land will die. |
| obverse 1 | ... will place... in the land |
| reverse 8' | ... will place... in the land |
| reverse 9' | ... will place... in the land |
| obverse 11 | ... land |
| reverse 7' | ... he will die. |
| obverse 10 | ... his land will not be sold. |
| obverse 6 | If the sun rises and a cloudburst...: there will be a great army in the land. |
| obverse 3 | ...... |
| obverse 8 | ... rains and floods will come. |
| obverse 2 | ... rain. |
| reverse 6' | ... will place |
| reverse 5' | ... is low... |
| obverse 9 | .... who takes counsel(?) |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| reverse 3' | ... a lunar eclipse |
| obverse 5 | If in the land the sun is surrounded by 3 clouds: there will be a fall of the army. |
| reverse 10' | ... barley |
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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