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BM 036517 (P563071)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 036517 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563071 |
| Museum no. | BM 036517 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
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 2' | ... (it is) good in the beginning of the night, (it is) good in the middle of the night, (it is) evil.... |
| reverse 9' | ...... |
| obverse 6' | ... on the left: it is good; on the right, evil.... |
| reverse 4' | ... from............. |
| obverse 4' | Perfect one, Marduk, alternatively(?) Marduk and ulpa'e, on the right and on the left evil... |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 8' | ... is good in the head of evil in the middle of evil (means) : black (means) : Jupiter... |
| reverse 7' | ............ |
| reverse 2' | ... the father who bore me... |
| obverse 5' | ... Venus, Ninsumun, the Itar |
| reverse 3' | ...... the lord who has raised you |
| obverse 1' | ... Sîn to(?) |
| obverse 7' | ..., Nusku, Ninurta, who provides for their gate |
| reverse 8' | ... mountain/netherworld |
| obverse 3' | ... he will recover. :... |
| reverse 6' | ...... : the king in his palace... |
| reverse 5' | ... U.UR2.MA : AB2.ZA3.MI |
| obverse 9' | ... Mars(?) |
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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