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BM 045867 (P558385)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 045867 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558385 |
| Museum no. | BM 045867 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 2' | ... the upper side, and |
| 3' | ... and black (gloss: new break).... |
| 10' | ... with a princely aura,..., |
| 6' | ... will fall. Adad will devastate in the land of the prince. |
| 5' | ... the 'hand' of the army will be destroyed. : If an eclipse... a field. |
| 4' | ... black... |
| 11' | ... may... be smitten. |
| 9' | ...... |
| 1' | ... from the talent and... |
| 7' | ... will fall. Adad will devastate in the land. |
| 8' | ... built(?) |
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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