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BM 035535 (P562774)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 035535 |
|---|---|
| ID | P562774 |
| Museum no. | BM 035535 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse? 12 | (If) a man is seized by a man and he is seized inside it: an enemy will attack me and kill me. |
| reverse? 2 | ... your army, the radiance of Adad, |
| obverse? 9' | ... enemy troops ditto |
| obverse? 7' | ... Adad will devastate in the beginning of the year. |
| reverse? 11 | (If) a man is seized by a man and he strews in his mouth: an enemy will attack and I will go. |
| obverse? 1' | ... will fall into our army(?) |
| reverse? 7 | ... will fall and fall. The army will enter the prince's land. |
| reverse? 10 | ... and he conquered... and he conquered the enemy. |
| reverse? 6 | ... you recite... and they are yellow-green: my troops will drink water. |
| reverse? 3 | You crush white..., like a threshing floor(?) of Adad in a maqû-vessel. |
| reverse? 9 | ... stood on a throne, and it was swollen and teeming. |
| reverse? 8 | ... will be captured. The messenger of the enemy will approach the king. |
| reverse? 5 | ... you recite... and you sweep your army. |
| reverse? 4 | ... will fall and disappear. The army will enter the prince's land. |
| obverse? 2' | ... fell to the enemy's army |
| obverse? 3' | ...... with the sword of a prince will fall in his throne, or the noble woman will die. |
| reverse? 1 | ... his |
| obverse? 4' | ... is overturned and dark: your troops will be killed by god. |
| obverse? 8' | ... he smote... in your army |
| obverse? 5' | ... is present; the days of the prince will end; on the day of the eponym year of the stone. |
| obverse? 6' | ... your army, Adad will devastate. |
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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