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BM 035499 (P562765)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 035499 |
|---|---|
| ID | P562765 |
| Museum no. | BM 035499 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Omens |
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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 3' | If a woman is surrounded by a wide breast: she will become numerous. |
| col 1' 3' | ... who enters the house: |
| col 1' 8' | ... the adjoining of a house in which she lives he will give her. |
| col 1' 5' | ... you eat food, and |
| col 1' 6' | ... who enters the house: the heart of the house will become happy. |
| col 2' 4' | If he is ill, he is ill: he will die. |
| col 2' 1' | If he is ill : there will be famine. : he will die. |
| col 2' 2' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder: he will have mercy on his god. |
| col 1' 4' | ... he will enter the house, the happiness will enter. |
| col 1' 1' | ... that woman will become rich; she will become rich. |
| col 1' 2' | ...: that child will become poor. |
| col 1' 7' | ... DIRI-at, the house where the wife is born |
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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