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BM 040378 (P557776)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 040378 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557776 |
| Museum no. | BM 040378 |
| 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 2' | pirig vessel of the pure heavens and earth, whose utterances are firmly established |
| obverse? 6' | ... a igaram priestess,... who is full of..., |
| obverse? 2' | ... the great... |
| obverse? 5' | the... of heaven |
| reverse 5' | he is a widow, he is a widow, he is a widow. |
| obverse? 8' | ... eat |
| reverse 3' | The day that he was abandoned, the heavens and earth were full of rejoicing. |
| obverse? 4' | ... he smote... that is great, he... |
| obverse? 3' | ... the great Ganzer |
| obverse? 1' | ...... |
| reverse 4' | The sun is a lion, its horns... from heaven |
| reverse 1' | The urinnu-priestess of Anunnaki, the uum-priestess of the Igigi |
| obverse? 7' | ... in the midst of |
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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