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BM 038390 (P563783)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038390 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563783 |
| Museum no. | BM 038390 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 6' | From the mouth of the scribe ditto. |
| reverse 9 | In the middle of the house, a house... |
| obverse 10' | from the... of the house of ama the... of ditto |
| obverse 2' | From the window of the horizon the fates |
| obverse 16' | In the courtyard ditto |
| obverse 5' | From the top to the top of ditto |
| reverse 15 | Be exorcised in heaven! |
| obverse 3' | From the window of the horizon to the horizon! |
| reverse 11 | (If) there is a knot in the middle of the upper thigh, |
| obverse 21' | ... with |
| obverse 14' | ... in a well |
| reverse 5 | from the door of the house |
| reverse 7 | from the door-jamb of the house |
| reverse 2 | from the province of |
| obverse 9' | In the mouth of his mouth ditto |
| obverse 18' | In the mountain range ditto |
| reverse 12 | By means of the scepter ditto |
| reverse 1 | from...... |
| obverse 11' | from the light... |
| reverse 3 | from... |
| obverse 22' | ...... |
| obverse 7' | From the mouth of the lord ditto. |
| reverse 16 | Be exorcised in the earth! |
| reverse 6 | You will build a house in the middle of the house. |
| obverse 19' | from the threshing floor of the house. |
| obverse 15' | from the well of the good quality to the potter of your greatness ditto. |
| reverse 4 | from the door of the house... in the assembly of the house |
| obverse 20' | from the threshing floor to the threshing floor ditto |
| reverse 13 | ... from above a trough |
| obverse 13' | from the black-headed |
| obverse 4' | In the open window ditto |
| obverse 12' | At that time |
| reverse 8 | from the threshing floor of the house |
| obverse 1' | from the Aptu... ditto |
| reverse 14 | from the zarakita-tree... to the bottom ditto |
| obverse 8' | from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea |
| obverse 17' | At the threshing floor ditto, at the threshing floor |
| reverse 10 | in the middle of the house |
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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