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BM 036626 (P563140)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 036626 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563140 |
| Museum no. | BM 036626 |
| 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 6' | If the wind blows on the land.... |
| reverse 8' | If the flood goes and its water reaches:....... |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| reverse 12' | ...... |
| obverse 14' | If a sign....... |
| obverse 8' | If he goes down to that house and he.... |
| obverse 10' | If he goes to that house |
| obverse 9' | If he enters his house and he is ill and.... |
| reverse 11' | In (the month)..., from the 1st day to the 30th day... |
| obverse 4' | If a house....... |
| reverse 9' | If in Taritu (Month VII), which the great hero Nergal |
| obverse 3' | If a house... a house: that house will expand. |
| obverse 13' | If... to the new house(?) |
| obverse 7' | If that house....... |
| obverse 6' | If a house is surrounded by a cloud: that land will become happy. |
| obverse 12' | If he enters that house:....... |
| reverse 7' | If the river quakes:... barley.... |
| reverse 5' | If the earth enters.... |
| reverse 10' | In (the month) Tartu (VII), on the 7th (and) 11th, 13th (and) 17th, 18th (and) 21st... |
| obverse 5' | If a house...... |
| obverse 2' | If a house |
| reverse 3' | If the south wind blows(?) |
| obverse 11' | If he enters his house |
| reverse 4' | If a cloudburst... |
| reverse 2' | If a sow.... |
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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