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BM 040169 (P557762)
CANONICAL > Literature > Taboo Text (CBS 16 and duplicates); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 040169 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557762 |
| Museum no. | BM 040169 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Taboo Text (CBS 16 and duplicates); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
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 14' | ... the gods... |
| obverse 13 | ..................... |
| obverse 15 | (If) he... a bow and Gilgame... battle....... |
| reverse 10' | qt of the father and KUR.DA.RU: year: “The Weapon.” |
| obverse 14 | ......... |
| obverse 6 | ...... |
| obverse 9 | ... of the Ekur temple Bur-Sin............... |
| reverse 3' | (If) it is surrounded by a fog:.... |
| obverse 8 | .... |
| obverse 11 | ...,...,...,...,..., |
| reverse 6' | (Property of) Tibrtu and Damgtu, end of the year: "The barley will not prosper"... |
| reverse 13' | ... unfinished tablet of Enlil- |
| reverse 12' | ... Enlil... the 13th... rejoicing of Aur |
| obverse 1 | (If) a boat is surrounded by a fog: Aur will... the life of Enlil. |
| obverse 3 | ........................ |
| reverse 8' | (If) he is stricken by Ea and Enlil: he will not die, he will die. |
| reverse 9' | ......... |
| reverse 11' | ...... |
| obverse 5 | The 'qt of his bread, the 'finger' of the sky, and the 'finger' of the sea... |
| reverse 7' | ... all of the life(?) |
| obverse 12 | .................. |
| obverse 16 | The cook(?)... the tahazi rites of |
| reverse 5' | ...... |
| obverse 10 | .........., father... |
| obverse 2 | ........, |
| obverse 4 | ... work......... |
| obverse 7 | ......,... Ungalnibru and Ad(?) |
| reverse 0' | ... gold... |
| reverse 1' | ......... |
| reverse 4' | ....., whose flesh... |
| reverse 2' | ... :... : |
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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