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BM 041856 (P557902)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 041856 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557902 |
| Museum no. | BM 041856 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 10' | If the Pleiades stand on the right of the moon: the land will be scattered. |
| 2' | If the Raven's head in its position is with it: in that year the river will go. |
| 19' | If a fox does not look at that star like that of the sky |
| 3' | If the raven's star is in the sky like a star: he will be raised.... |
| 12' | If a pigeon is dark: cattle will diminish; people in... |
| 13' | If a pigeon has a mole in the middle of the sky, the planet... |
| 16' | If the KA'a-star... inside the Field: its face is on the south side. |
| 4' | If a eagle, like a lion, rises above it, 3 stars rise above it, (and) for the life of the land there is |
| 11' | If the Pleiades stand in the left horn of the Moon: the land will become confused. |
| 5' | If the Eagle approaches the Eridu-star: there will be frost in the land. |
| 18' | If the Kidney Star... a star not red in front of the Kidney Star.... |
| 7' | If the Eagle reaches the Eagle: sesame will prosper. |
| 6' | If a pigeon approaches a planet: sesame will prosper. |
| 14' | If in the sky a meteor of the Eagle becomes visible:.... |
| 8' | If the Eagle approaches the Pleiades: Adad will devastate. |
| 20' | ... night |
| 17' | ... very red, its eyes |
| 15' | If the KA-star stands in the Inner City.... |
| 9' | If the Eagle stands inside the moon: the king will die. |
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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