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AfO 27, 78, BM 036197 (P562939)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | AfO 27, 78, BM 036197 |
|---|---|
| ID | P562939 |
| Museum no. | BM 036197 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 9' | Erra approached and in the plain of the land |
| reverse 1' | Tablet of |
| obverse 7' | You, go before me and the gods... |
| obverse 6' | You are the one who slanders you, |
| obverse 2' | he returned to him and his heart to do battle. |
| reverse 3' | In the month ebtu |
| obverse 5' | he says, and he should go out and go to the steppe. |
| obverse 8' | You are guardian and are frightened.... |
| reverse 2' | like his foes... |
| obverse 10' | As your greatness and a happy heart |
| obverse 4' | To the divine lord, the qarrad, unrivalled one, |
| obverse 3' | He has spoken to his weapons: he is a widow. |
| obverse 15' | until you have concluded a treaty with him, a lion's head, |
| obverse 13' | he swore to his knees, he was a frightened |
| obverse 11' | Erra, like the one who slackens the blood of a man |
| obverse 14' | To the goddess Ilum, the warrior, may you be your helper. |
| obverse 1' | and in order to save his life, the oath of Erra, the warrior of the gods, |
| obverse 12' | He says to his heart: "Let me live, let me live!" |
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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