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BM 045864 (P558384)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 045864 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558384 |
| Museum no. | BM 045864 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Astrology |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 7' | If the Moon is dark in the area of Scorpius and the Scorpion or whether Venus in the area of the... star |
| col 1' 5' | ...... bowl(?) |
| col 1' 6' | ...... and(?) udug ritual |
| col 2' 11' | ... to the city of ME-LAL to... |
| col 1' 3' | ... decisions for Akkad |
| col 1' 7' | ... land(?) king(?)... me(?) |
| col 1' 9' | ......... |
| col 2' 4' | If the Moon is dark in the area of the Scorpion and the sky |
| col 2' 12' | ......... |
| col 2' 2' | ... in the place of the star |
| col 2' 3' | You put... on your left. That sign....... |
| col 2' 5' | (If) the vertebra of the Scorpion stands: the king....... |
| col 1' 8' | ... decision, flood(?) |
| col 1' 2' | ... king |
| col 2' 9' | (If) it is low: before ama and ama he will send (them) and... |
| col 1' 4' | ... great(?)... storm(?) |
| col 2' 10' | ............ |
| col 2' 8' | ... on the back(?) of the Lion... that sign... to the enemy land of Subartu |
| col 2' 6' | ......... |
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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