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BM 047497 (P558562)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 047497 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558562 |
| Museum no. | BM 047497 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Astrology |
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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 14 | If a ulpa’e-star stands in the womb of Sin: the king of Akkad will die. |
| obverse 8 | If on the 20th day the moon and sun are seen together: the army will attack and the land will revolt against the lord. |
| reverse 9 | If Jupiter stands in front of the moon: the great king will die. |
| obverse 5 | If on the 15th day the moon and sun are seen together: a strong enemy will overthrow his weapons against the land. |
| reverse 15 | If Venus enters the moon: the king of Akkad will die. |
| obverse 2 | If on the 13th day the moon and sun are seen together: not reliable speech; the field of the land will not prosper; and there will be famine in the land. |
| reverse 12 | If Jupiter stands in the horn of the moon: in that year the king of the world will die. The kings will die. |
| obverse 6 | If on the sixteenth day the moon and sun are seen together: the king will send evil messages to the king.... |
| obverse 7 | If on the 17th day the moon and sun are seen together: the king of Elam will come to the land; the saatu-demon will conquer the land. |
| reverse 16 | ... will die. |
| reverse 11 | If Jupiter stands in the horn of the moon: the king of Akkad will die. |
| obverse 3 | If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: the speech of the land will become reliable; the land will become happy;... Akkad will become happy; joy among the troops; the king will become happy; the wild animals will not lie in the pasture. |
| obverse 4 | If the moon and sun are seen together: the enemy will kill Anu. The king of Akkad... the enemy will not place |
| reverse 10 | If Jupiter stands in the horn of the moon: the king of Akkad will die. |
| reverse 13 | If a ulpa’e-star stands on the left side of the Moon: the king of Akkad will die. |
| obverse 1 | If on the 12th day the moon and sun are seen together: end of the reign. |
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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