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BM.36497 (P563056)

CANONICAL > Literature > Taboo Text (CBS 16 and duplicates), Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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Designation	BM.36497
ID	P563056
Museum no.	BM.36497
Collection	Babylon
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
Genre	CANONICAL > Literature > Taboo Text (CBS 16 and duplicates)

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)
4'	(If) Enlil seizes (and) ama in its mouth: he will die.
6'	You are able to smite in the wall of her city; she will have mercy on the man.
9'	The TU-bird of Ningal will go to Nippur.
7'	(If) he is a stag of Nergal of Nippur: the name of the goddess Itar will be called and her heart will go to ruin.
3'	The mada priestess of Ningal of Nippur, in the aatu-festival you stood.
5'	The priestess of the god Nergal of Nippur, named by the wisdom, and the scepter of the god Enlil
10'	(If) a bird, the igru, the name of the god Enlil, a igru, is yellow and its appearance cannot be altered.
2'	... in his place... his lord, his eunuch,
8'	Nergal-kuruna, Itar of Nippur, name of Enlil(?) (is) the lady(?) and Enlil will take (it).
13'	(If) a pigeon (is) an amursikku-bird (and) Enlil, son of the sons of the gods, who sat before him.
11'	(If) a enenmau-bird (named) Enlil, (the name of) Enlil, rises to the horizon and recites (this incantation):
12'	The eebû-bird (is) Kiar's name before Itar of Nippur her breast he shall smite

Sources & licences

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)

Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.