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BM 037140 (P563236)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 037140 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563236 |
| Museum no. | BM 037140 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 11' | ... may he take and |
| reverse 4' | .... he will be smitten. |
| reverse 8' | .... |
| reverse 2' | ... truth |
| obverse 6' | When you recite the incantation, and you recite: |
| obverse 2' | to smite |
| obverse 7' | Junior child of Asalluhi |
| obverse 5' | When Asalluhi does not know, may he not know (it) for you |
| reverse 7' | ... the shepherd's prebend on the 10th day |
| reverse 5' | ... your name |
| obverse 9' | ... may he take and |
| obverse 10' | of the umetu(?) |
| obverse 4' | May my son not know what you say, may he not know what you say. |
| reverse 6' | .... thus |
| obverse 3' | Enki replied to his son Asalluhi |
| obverse 8' | hand of a god |
| reverse 3' | .......... supplications |
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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