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BM 038315 (P563732)
Prayer, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038315 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563732 |
| Museum no. | BM 038315 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
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 12 | who destroys evil and evil, |
| obverse 1 | to Venus, the exalted lady... |
| obverse 10 | Exalted lady, lady of the gods, |
| reverse 8 | ... in my presence |
| reverse 6 | or silver, gold, barley, or dates, |
| obverse 3 | The one who constantly seeks out the wisdom of the lady of battle, |
| obverse 5 | The radiance which from the east to the west |
| reverse 2 | ... like anything of the'residences' |
| obverse 11 | Favorable mother of the great gods. |
| obverse 13 | the liat of her mountain range |
| reverse 9 | Lady of the exalted, who... supremacy before |
| obverse 2 | Lady of the evil omens, who gives birth to... |
| reverse 7 | As much as is written in this papyrus and placed in the tablet. |
| obverse 8 | Guea, who the tuquttu-disease, |
| reverse 5 | I heard, I heard, whatever he had, |
| obverse 9 | the liar of the fodder-deaf, who does not fear, who is his opponent? |
| reverse 11 | Be present in this ram, place in it a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious omens by the oracular command of your great divinity, and may I see them. |
| reverse 4 | or to take (a claim) in my house |
| obverse 4 | The one who is the one who adorns the dabdû, the one who... the rites |
| obverse 7 | 'Leqata,......, |
| reverse 13 | Written according to its original and collated. |
| obverse 14 | ...... which before him not... the gods and |
| obverse 6 | whatever ama sees, the totality of the land he..., |
| reverse 1 | ... you will stand... from the woman. |
| reverse 3 | ... there will be no claim. |
| reverse 10 | "Come, come, and come!" — this is the case. |
| reverse 12 | From the seat of his... may he rejoice over him and... the oath... |
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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