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BM 038380 (P557603)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038380 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557603 |
| Museum no. | BM 038380 |
| 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 4' | ... will die and... |
| obverse 12' | Nergal-kuruna, Itar of Nippur, year: “Enlil, lord(?)” |
| obverse 5' | (If) he is stricken with them: the god Enlil will die in his sin. |
| obverse 10' | (If) he is a son of Nergal of Nippur: he will become a son, he will become a son, and he will become a son of Enlil. |
| obverse 3' | (If) the Lion and the Scorpion make the name of Enlil: fates, all the gods, fates. |
| obverse 8' | (If) a lion (is) the name of a man in the enenna-festival with him for the god Aur: he will seize (it) and the god Aur will go and he will give (it) with him. |
| obverse 6' | (If) the throne of Itar goes (and) the wording of the name of the mouth (and) the word of their wisdom in front of him: |
| obverse 4' | Incantation: O Nillil, name from upur and Erra. |
| obverse 9' | (If) he is a madau-priest of the god Nergal of Nippur: in the ahitu-festival you will be seized by the god Enlil. |
| obverse 2' | ... of Ningal in Nippur. Hand of Belet-ili and he raised his head. |
| obverse 13' | The TU-bird of Ningal of Nippur... with the woman for the evil weapon of her city. |
| reverse 2' | ... his... and... |
| reverse 5' | ... lady... |
| reverse 3' | ... my lord and... |
| obverse 11' | (If) a sacrificial snake is the name of Nergal of Nippur: |
| obverse 7' | (If) the Kidney Star, the name of the lords of the ancestors, his fathers, is torn out and in battle will come out. |
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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