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BM 048928 (P558711)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 048928 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558711 |
| Museum no. | BM 048928 |
| 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? col 1' 4' | ... ditto |
| obverse? col 2' 8' | The... star |
| obverse? col 2' 5' | The Scales |
| obverse? col 1' 8' | ... Euphrates, the Scorpion |
| obverse? col 2' 3' | The, |
| obverse? col 2' 10' | The... star |
| obverse? col 2' 12' | The Pleiades... |
| obverse? col 1' 6' | ... the Tigris |
| obverse? col 1' 14' | ......... |
| obverse? col 2' 11' | The... star |
| obverse? col 2' 7' | The... star |
| obverse? col 1' 2' | ... set up(?)... heaven and earth |
| obverse? col 1' 11' | ... and the Tigris goes(?) |
| obverse? col 2' 6' | The king |
| obverse? col 1' 13' | ... the Euphrates |
| obverse? col 1' 12' | ... Adad |
| obverse? col 2' 4' | The... star(?) |
| obverse? col 1' 9' | ...... :... : |
| obverse? col 1' 5' | ... ama, ditto |
| obverse? col 1' 10' | ...... : of Cancer(?) the Euphrates River |
| obverse? col 1' 7' | ... the Tigris, Anunitu |
| obverse? col 2' 1' | The... star |
| obverse? col 2' 13' | The... star |
| obverse? col 2' 2' | The... star |
| obverse? col 2' 9' | The... star |
| obverse? col 1' 1' | ... star |
| obverse? col 1' 3' | ... ditto |
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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