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BM 038975 (P557637)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038975 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557637 |
| Museum no. | BM 038975 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 10' | ...... plant, 2... plant |
| 12' | ... sweet... you crush... |
| 9' | shekel of...-plant, 3...-plant, |
| 15' | ... purified(?)... in 3 sila3 beer(?) |
| 13' | ... to......... |
| 14' | ... large, 3 shekels of ebony |
| 7' | If a ghost seizes a man's hand and he is seized by a ritual assemblage. |
| 5' | ......, his eyes hurt him,... |
| 3' | ............... |
| 16' | ... to the one who....... |
| 2' | ... juniper,...-plant |
| 4' | ... and ELLAG plant allotment |
| 17' | ............ |
| 11' | with 4 qû of beer, 2 qû of beer(?) of |
| 6' | ... in water... |
| 8' | or through the ritual procedure of the mmautu-priests...... |
| 1' | ... 2/a, overcast. The 3rd,... |
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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