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BM 048990 (P558716)
Astral sciences, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 048990 |
|---|---|
| ID | P558716 |
| Museum no. | BM 048990 |
| 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 2' | ... ama |
| obverse 12' | ... as far as Venus and(?) |
| reverse 8' | ... : ZI(?) |
| reverse 6' | ... of a man : Bel... |
| obverse 9' | ... Mercury was in the west |
| obverse 3' | ... Anana |
| obverse 10' | ... behind the moon... |
| reverse 5' | ... was surrounded by a rainbow |
| obverse 4' | ... stood on its right horn |
| obverse 11' | ...... |
| reverse 7' | ...... :...... |
| reverse 4' | ... The 20th, on the 1st day, a rainbow |
| obverse 6' | ...... stands(?) |
| reverse 3' | ...... : an eclipse will occur... |
| obverse 7' | ... Mars in the east |
| obverse 8' | ... his god stands and... |
| obverse 5' | ... in the east |
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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