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BM 047908 (P557753)
Astrology; Medical, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 047908 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557753 |
| Museum no. | BM 047908 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Astrology; Medical |
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 8' | .... |
| obverse 1' | ... the sun gave birth to 6 (men?) on the 6th (and) 20th, |
| obverse 4' | ... in the west, in the west, in the west, in the west, in the west, in the west, in the west, |
| obverse 6' | its hands are finished and albitanu or Sagub or Mercury |
| reverse 6' | ... from ebtu (Month X), from ebtu (Month X), |
| reverse 3' | ... times 16... he will go and the 1st (and) 50th, he will pay. |
| reverse 7' | ............... |
| reverse 5' | ... cannot see.... |
| reverse 2' | ... that young man did not complete. |
| reverse 1' | ... or a... |
| obverse 7' | or in the place of the shepherd or in the place of the Eagle or in the place of the... star |
| obverse 3' | ... all day long... to the moon and sun |
| obverse 2' | The 6th, the sun was surrounded by a halo, and it was surrounded by a cloud. |
| obverse 5' | ... you look at..., and that child will die. |
| reverse 4' | ...... and... 3 (times) 6 (and) 7 (times) |
| obverse 8' | stand (there) in the days. |
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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