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BM 038434 + BM 038465 (P557607)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038434 + BM 038465 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557607 |
| Museum no. | BM 038434 + BM 038465 |
| 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 36' | ... reed...... |
| reverse 31' | ... is seen... and its light... |
| obverse 7' | .................. |
| reverse 8' | ............... |
| reverse 17' | ......... |
| reverse 38' | ... Adad |
| obverse 6' | ... black..., black |
| reverse 3' | ... from the mouth of the gihli priestess |
| reverse 22' | ... on that day he will take away and... |
| reverse 9' | ...... white...; at that time, it rose... |
| reverse 19' | ... ama did not see and... |
| reverse 26' | ... red....,... |
| obverse 11' | ... all that... PI, the land. In that month,... |
| reverse 12' | ...... when he enters |
| reverse 5' | ... black horns appear; at his entering... |
| reverse 18' | ... appears and...... |
| obverse 14' | ... a lament... |
| obverse 15' | ...... in |
| reverse 1' | ...... and |
| reverse 7' | ... red clouds before... |
| reverse 40' | ... before ahtu... |
| obverse 3' | ... overcast?... |
| reverse 2' | ... will fall and....... |
| reverse 23' | ... ulutu-disease... |
| reverse 21' | ... many of them |
| obverse 8' | ... he will see... and in the middle |
| obverse 9' | ... will see...: there will be famine. |
| reverse 10' | ...... there will be floods in the river... |
| reverse 27' | ... his eyes |
| reverse 34' | ... of fire... |
| reverse 37' | ... he will weigh out. On the... day... |
| obverse 4' | ... the south wind blew |
| reverse 24' | ...... |
| reverse 25' | ... black?, a rainbow... |
| obverse 2' | ... barley(?) |
| reverse 20' | ... is very...,...... |
| reverse 11' | ... black...... |
| reverse 29' | ... and if in an eclipse...... |
| reverse 6' | ...... |
| obverse 13' | ...... cows and sheep |
| obverse 12' | ... and the king's son... the throne. |
| reverse 28' | ... great heaven and earth... |
| reverse 41' | ... plant |
| obverse 5' | ... :... |
| obverse 10' | ... his eyes... |
| reverse 32' | ... Adad thunders and in the netherworld |
| reverse 30' | ... the king will die. |
| reverse 4' | ... black/black...... |
| reverse 39' | ... at its entry, in rain...... |
| reverse 33' | ...... all the lands... |
| obverse 16' | ... in the land(?) |
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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