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BM 047683 (P558572)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 047683 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558572 |
| Museum no. | BM 047683 |
| 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 10' | ..., Venus and Mercury |
| obverse 2' | ...... is split and |
| obverse 9' | ...... is eclipsed: the enemy will fall and |
| obverse 3' | ... not reed, not a field... aulsigsig(?) |
| reverse 10' | ...... |
| reverse 8' | ... until the 18th, dead... |
| reverse 5' | ...... lord |
| reverse 3' | ..... lord of the sceptre, a sceptre... |
| reverse 4' | ... faithfully |
| reverse 9' | ......... |
| obverse 5' | ... they have become hostile...... |
| obverse 13' | ... from the... of Dr(?) Irqingu |
| reverse 2' | ...... in |
| reverse 6' | ... in... 6? U......... As |
| obverse 6' | ... Mars is eclipsed and there will be hostilities |
| obverse 11' | ... Saturn rains, floods...... in the ground(?) |
| obverse 8' | ... Venus and Mercury(?) |
| obverse 14' | ...... stone |
| obverse 7' | .... in the place of the utterance, shouting to Adad. |
| obverse 12' | ... raises..., |
| obverse 4' | ... is surrounded by a rainbow and |
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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