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BM 043903 (P558259)

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

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Designation	BM 043903
ID	P558259
Museum no.	BM 043903
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)
obverse 2	If an anomaly is provided with a left horn: the enemy's heart will become happy.
obverse 8	If the front of them is black: your army will fall in battle.
obverse 4	If the right side of the gall bladder is black: the enemy will attack my enemy.
obverse 9	If the coils of the colon are 1 5 (shekels): he will live in the city.
obverse 1	If the right side of the 'finger' is dark: my army will be frightened.
obverse 5	If the left side of the 'finger' is black: attack of a enemy.
obverse 10	If the left side of the 'finger' is split: he will stay in the city.
obverse 3	If the right side of the 'finger' is split: female Ku-Bubu.
obverse 7	If the 'well-beings' are black: the enemy will be killed.
obverse 6	If the eyes are black: the enemy will kill my army.

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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