BM 032259 (P561966)
Divination, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 032259 |
|---|---|
| ID | P561966 |
| Museum no. | BM 032259 + BM 036819 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
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) |
|---|---|
| 32' | ...... and he will die. He will restore it. The enemy will devastate and |
| 17' | You recite... to him. And you recite... on him. |
| 25' | ...... he made rise and fall...... |
| 12' | ... raised up and the left side of the gall bladder... the scribe |
| 27' | ... that on the right he brought to a weapon... the breast of the king... |
| reverse 14 | (No translation possible) |
| 34' | ....... and he has brought... to their lower... |
| 21' | ... he caused to rise and fall of the enemy's... |
| reverse 11 | ... the one who constantly seeks out... |
| reverse 26 | ... before my star... |
| reverse 25 | ........... |
| reverse 1 | ...... |
| reverse 10 | ... 15° naparqud...... |
| 31' | ... 15 fingers and he will die... his weapons. |
| 14' | ... he caused to rise and he smote him.... with the weapon of the enemy he smote me. |
| reverse 29 | ... prince... |
| 2' | ... to his residence... |
| reverse 30 | (No translation possible) |
| 18' | ... he made rise up and he sat inside it, and your weapons he... your enemy troops |
| 10' | ... he caused to rise and the right side he smote. In a weapon... plant... |
| reverse 4 | ... shepherd...... |
| reverse 16 | ... the right is overturned...... |
| 35' | .... and he has brought... to their lower... |
| 33' | ...... and he will die and he will restore it. The enemy will not see Mercury and... |
| 16' | ... he caused to rise, and he smote it. The enemy will... my weapons. |
| reverse 24 | ................... |
| 19' | (If) he... and he... and he... in it, he will... the weapons of the enemy's army |
| 3' | ...... to the ground... |
| reverse 7 | ...... gods... |
| 37' | ... army(?) |
| 24' | ... has raised... |
| reverse 8 | ... inside it... the gods... |
| reverse 2 | ... the gods |
| reverse 20 | ...... in the deeds |
| 8' | ... in the weapon of the enemy I smote |
| reverse 9 | ... [...]... [...] |
| 30' | ... 1 5 qû and he will die; a sick person will die in his illness.... |
| 23' | ... he made the enemy frighten my land... |
| reverse 17 | ...... |
| reverse 18 | ...... |
| reverse 19 | ...... |
| reverse 5 | ...... |
| reverse 21 | ................ |
| 9' | ................ |
| 5' | ... enemy troops in battle |
| 36' | ...... day |
| 28' | ... he caused to be brought to an end of the enemy, Mercury reached the enemy enemy,... |
| reverse 23 | ..... the lamassu... |
| 22' | ....................... |
| 15' | ... he caused... to rise and he smote it... with the weapon of the enemy I smashed. |
| 4' | ... your troops in the wall(?) |
| 13' | ... he smote... and the right side he smote. The scribe |
| 7' | ...... the enemy will conquer his wailing... |
| 11' | ... has caused... to be lifted and... on the left... |
| 26' | ........... he smote the flood,....... |
| reverse 22 | ... one... of the land |
| reverse 6 | ... to the land |
| reverse 3 | ... the gods |
| reverse 27 | ... in front of the Weapon of the enemy... |
| 20' | ... has caused... to rise and the affliction of a hostile land to me... Mercury... |
| reverse 15 | ... the right is overturned... |
| 6' | ........................ |
| 29' | .... they have caused to be brought out to a weapon, and there will be reconciliation and peace in the land. |
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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