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BM 037831 (P557585)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 037831 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557585 |
| Museum no. | BM 037831 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Astral sciences |
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? 3' | 14(?) stones in the middle... |
| obverse? 5' | Mars... |
| obverse? 3' | ... the one who... |
| reverse? 7' | You set in place a ritual assemblage of juniper. |
| obverse? 2' | ... to.... |
| reverse? 8' | Total: 29? stones from the middle of the night until the 14th,... |
| reverse? 2' | ......... |
| reverse? 4' | You wrap the 7 knots with the stones in the middle of the middle. |
| obverse? 4' | ... sahlû-plant... |
| reverse? 6' | You pound the brick(s) on the brick(s) of the middle surface of the brick. |
| obverse? 6' | ...... |
| reverse? 1' | ... wool |
| obverse? 1' | ...... |
| reverse? 5' | If a woman's blood goes. |
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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