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BM 045994 (P558435)
Astrology, Late Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–100 BCE
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| Designation | BM 045994 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558435 |
| Museum no. | BM 045994 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Late Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–100 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) |
|---|---|
| 12' | ... will see..., the work of the great gods...... |
| 10' | ... to the 30th...... :............... |
| 16' | ... its culmination was white, it was seen in front of the enemy |
| 3' | ... enters the moon |
| 14' | ... you take a uru-mark. If the star becomes stationary and appears: the enemy |
| 15' | ... enemy troops in the path he crossed,... in his...... |
| 13' | ... Jupiter in its position became hostile to that land |
| 7' | ... and reed he made it grow. Marduk in a dog |
| 11' | ... of a planet(?)... to the slander(?) |
| 5' | ... sheep... gave birth and... |
| 17' | ... entered |
| 4' | ...... enters the moon... either upper or lower... |
| 9' | ... of a lion and a lion......... |
| 8' | ... the land, the lion and the mouth... |
| 6' | ... its... which is white: death and destruction... |
| 2' | ... weapons |
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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