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BM 042725 (P558004)

Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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Designation	BM 042725
ID	P558004
Museum no.	BM 042725
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)
2'	This is a recitation. In front of a man.
4'	Incantation: I have done you by the command of Ea. I have given you like a god.
6'	I made evil (god and) evil (god) stand at you.
1'	... of the urgal reeds, 7 urgal reeds of the thicket
11'	You make a flour/incense-offering for her, as many pure water as there are,
7'	The evil UDUG-demon, the evil of the city, the evil of a ghost, the evil of a great god, the evil of a great god
10'	Your mouth is a wall, and a good... is established.
5'	O Ea, lord of your words, and Asalluhi,...
8'	Lamatu, Lamatu, Lamatu, the lilû-priest, the lilû-priest
3'	You stand in the top of a chariot on a brick.
12'	With a man, a sick man, ama, king, day, ama, king.
9'	You place (it) to an unceasing one, to an unfavorable one.

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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