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BM 047915 (P558596)
Astrology, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 047915 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558596 |
| Museum no. | BM 047915 |
| 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 5' | Who knows (this), who knows it, who knows it, who knows it, who knows it? |
| obverse 1 | If on the 12th day the moon and sun are seen together: end of the reign. |
| reverse 7' | Son of Bel-ittannu, reverent one of Bel, unceasing |
| reverse 6' | Written and checked according to its original. |
| reverse 1' | If 3 (variant) on the 12th day: on the 13th day it appears with the sun: Enlil will approach the land. |
| reverse 2' | Ditto: he will diminish the yield. |
| reverse 3' | 18 years of the rites of the heavens(?) |
| obverse 2 | If on the 13th day the moon and sun are seen together:... will not become stable. |
| obverse 3 | If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together:.... |
| reverse 4' | When the mouth is long, the white... which is written to... |
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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