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BM 040201 (P557766)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 040201 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557766 |
| Museum no. | BM 040201 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Astrology |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 1' | ... Venus rises... |
| obverse 5' | ............ |
| reverse 11' | ... of...... |
| reverse 8' | which......... |
| obverse 11' | (gloss: new break)... Mars... his sign |
| obverse 12' | 15 (times) 4 60 (times) 2 10 20 6 10 2 4/5 8 200... |
| obverse 13' | (If) the Moon... the Sun.... |
| obverse 8' | the star to the 12th... the 15th?... |
| obverse 2' | ......... the mountain/netherworld |
| obverse 4' | ...... small, 15?... |
| obverse 7' | If the star is white:.......... |
| obverse 6' | ............ |
| reverse 6' | (If) a bad wind blows: ditto. |
| reverse 5' | True goat(?) water, supreme water |
| obverse 10' | The 21st, sunrise to moonset: 15°;...... |
| obverse 9' | Sin ditto, the lands like......... |
| obverse 3' | ......... |
| reverse 7' | (If) he falls into a box,.... |
| obverse 14' | ...... 2 6 10... |
| reverse 3' | If on the day of the moon an eclipse takes place and.... |
| reverse 9' | ......... |
| reverse 10' | ... land |
| reverse 4' | the lands are present... in front of the name of Adad |
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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