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BM 032545 (P562053)
Divination, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 032545 |
|---|---|
| ID | P562053 |
| Museum no. | BM 032545 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 11' | If the Kidney Star reaches the front of the Upper Star: barley will not prosper. |
| reverse 8' | If the Kidney Star comes close to the Crab: there will be great floods. |
| reverse 10' | If the Kidney Star comes close to the north: sesame will prosper. |
| obverse 6' | If a pigeon is surrounded by a halub tree: the planet will kill the donkeys of the land. |
| obverse 10' | ... there is a karrû-vessel, there is a strong one |
| reverse 13' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Kidney Star: there will be hostilities. |
| reverse 15' | ...... :...... |
| reverse 14' | If Enlil becomes bright and rain and flood: a year of abundance. |
| reverse 5' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Scorpion and the horses die. |
| reverse 4' | If the Field becomes visible: rain and flood.... |
| reverse 9' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Crab: the enemy will come. |
| obverse 9' | ... his(?) |
| reverse 3' | If the Fish in... and is covered with red and is covered by a wall, and there will be unfavorable and small omens. |
| obverse 11' | its... is large: the harvest of the land will diminish(?) |
| obverse 5' | If a pigeon is dark: ewes will diminish. The people.... |
| reverse 2' | If the coils of the colon are very red: he will die. |
| reverse 12' | If the Lion's stars become stationary on the left: that star will come out. |
| obverse 8' | ... it is favourable...... |
| reverse 1' | If a day is 4 or 2: there will be frost and death. |
| obverse 7' | (If) a star or a mehu-star is seen on the Scorpion: the king's army.... |
| reverse 7' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Cancri: there will be great floods. |
| reverse 6' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Furrow and it reaches the Bow. |
| obverse 2' | ...... |
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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