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BM 036978 (P563206)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 036978 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563206 |
| Museum no. | BM 036978 |
| 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 4' | ...... and...... |
| obverse 7' | ........ and you enter... |
| reverse 7' | ... the weapon on the left |
| reverse 8' | ... enters... meat... |
| reverse 9' | ......... |
| reverse 6' | ... in the left of the gall bladder... |
| obverse 10' | ...... and his sons among the sons... |
| obverse 3' | ... he will make... pleasant... |
| obverse 4' | ...... its left side... |
| obverse 11' | ... thus...: |
| obverse 9' | ... fall in heaven(?) as follows:... which in its midst |
| obverse 6' | ... this...... |
| obverse 8' | ... their water threshed one third and if the Path... |
| reverse 5' | ... I may see... |
| obverse 2' | ... his... |
| obverse 1' | ... the... of the man who... |
| reverse 2' | ... over his...... |
| obverse 5' | ..., my son, the... of the world |
| reverse 3' | ... in Capricorn... in the flesh... |
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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