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BM 038272 (P557597)
Lexical, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038272 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557597 |
| Museum no. | BM 038272 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Lexical |
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 15 | According to the wording of the tablet, a scribal art |
| obverse 5 | The evil star of Enlil |
| reverse 3 | (a kind of profession) |
| reverse 14 | [your] supplication is supreme, |
| obverse 16 | has not been able |
| obverse 11 | Just as to them you have returned to their places |
| reverse 16 | That Nebuchadnezzar (II), son of Dabibi, wrote to me |
| reverse 4 | The threshing floor, the ruhû-disease, |
| reverse 13 | You recite this incantation 3 times. |
| obverse 1 | The great gods are standing in heaven. |
| obverse 17 | does not approach |
| reverse 7 | they shall not enter... |
| obverse 9 | The Wagon, Ninlil |
| reverse 10 | no evil has seized me. |
| reverse 11 | By your command, that one stands in the heavens. |
| obverse 15 | evil demons |
| reverse 8 | In my heart, in my head |
| reverse 5 | 'May the evil-doer, the evil-doer, |
| obverse 10 | daughter of Ea... |
| obverse 13 | ubbubu-offerings of the city ikurra |
| obverse 14 | a sealed document, a ruu-silver |
| obverse 7 | The Babu, Gula |
| obverse 8 | The Field, Amurru |
| reverse 6 | who does not disregard the hands of humanity |
| obverse 2 | May Ea and Utu, the gods of the pure heavens, |
| reverse 12 | Its ritual: in front of the stars |
| obverse 3 | O Enzû, who the night, ama(?) of allure |
| reverse 9 | for the clearing of my guilt |
| obverse 4 | (If) the Pleiades are ditto |
| reverse 2 | the young one, the young one, the young one |
| reverse 1 | I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so |
| obverse 6 | The Arrow, Ninurta |
| obverse 12 | slander, slander, |
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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