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BM 041857 (P557903)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 041857 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557903 |
| Museum no. | BM 041857 |
| 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 5' | If ulpaea does not stand inside it, there will be barley and straw in the land. |
| reverse 11 | ...... to the wind(?) |
| obverse 3' | If the sun stands in the halo of the moon: there will be truth in the land. |
| reverse 10 | If he is ill for 1 day: the son of the king........ |
| reverse 12 | ... a storm(?) |
| reverse 9 | If there is a mole on the left side of the door: the enemy's land will become poor; the people... in the land... |
| reverse 4 | ... to the ground(?) |
| reverse 3 | ... in the land |
| obverse 8' | ... and that which is not inside, |
| obverse 2' | If the Moon is surrounded by a halo: Adad will devastate the land. |
| obverse 10' | If a star stands inside it:... will not change? barley.... |
| obverse 6' | If there is a ulpa'e-plant inside them: attack of the Westland. |
| obverse 9' | If ditto it is surrounded by a lunar halo like a rainbow: the harvest of the land will diminish and barley will not enter. |
| reverse 6 | If their gate to the north: the wall of Akkad. |
| reverse 5 | ... your |
| reverse 8 | If they open their gate to a favorable wind: the wall of the land will be built. |
| reverse 2 | ... enemy attack...... |
| obverse 11' | If the Moon ditto is surrounded by a halo and stars stand inside it: there will be barley and straw in the land. |
| obverse 4' | If the Moon ditto is surrounded by a halo, and Ninurta stands in it: the enemy's land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 12' | If the stars stand on the right and on the left: the enemy will devastate the troops of the land, and he will die. |
| reverse 7 | If their gate to the south (is) the wall of the land Elam : If their gate to the south (is) the wall of the land Amurru |
| obverse 7' | ...... : ditto (means): he will die and in his heart a rainbow will diminish. |
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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