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BM 036263 (P562959)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 036263 |
|---|---|
| ID | P562959 |
| Museum no. | BM 036263 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Incantation |
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 5' | ............. |
| reverse 8' | Lugalbana, the distant mountain, |
| obverse 3' | In the mountain, like a great door, you have sat in front |
| reverse 3' | ... for my life ditto... |
| obverse 2' | the father(?) ditto |
| obverse 7' | who shall alter the word of the lord |
| obverse 5' | who determines the fates and destinies, |
| reverse 4' | to Lugal-banda, the one who loves seed, to give birth, |
| obverse 6' | ... aromatic |
| reverse 2' | to the brickwork of Kulaba raised high |
| reverse 6' | by ara and the beloved son of Inana |
| obverse 4' | ... greatness of... |
| obverse 1' | “My father, Enlil! |
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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