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BM 048790 (P558697)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 048790 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558697 |
| Museum no. | BM 048790 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 3' | The Yoke... with the Moon |
| obverse 5' | The moon is 4 days aqa, Venus is... |
| reverse 6' | The Mercury |
| obverse 8' | Before: 30......... |
| obverse 10' | 1(?) bur3 field |
| obverse 2' | ...... |
| obverse 7' | in 12 years. The 12th,...... |
| reverse 4' | Mars... |
| obverse 3' | ...... |
| obverse 9' | 1 U 20... |
| reverse 2' | ... 30... |
| obverse 6' | The 12th, a rainbow stretched out...... |
| reverse 7' | The star |
| obverse 4' | ... faithfully...... |
| reverse 5' | The Scorpion... |
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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