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BM 042717 (P557999)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 042717 |
|---|---|
| ID | P557999 |
| Museum no. | BM 042717 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 2' | If the Pleiades stand in its left horn: in Akkad blood will be scattered. |
| reverse 1' | If the Pleiades stand in its right horn: in Amurru there will be famine. |
| reverse 4' | If the Moon, at its appearance, the Shepherd of Anu stands in its top: in that year, the king of the land will make a great land small. |
| reverse 5' | If the Shepherd stands inside it: the king will exercise world dominion. |
| obverse 7' | ... the land |
| obverse 6' | ... small... |
| obverse 2' | ... will die |
| obverse 5' | ... his land |
| obverse 4' | ... his land will cross over. |
| obverse 3' | Its ritual: |
| reverse 3' | If the Pleiades stand in front of it: the land will be seized. |
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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