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BM 038412 (P563796)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038412 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563796 |
| Museum no. | BM 038412 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 11 | when the rites of the egar priests were established |
| 18 | ......... |
| 14 | ... to a man's house... |
| 15 | The watercourse of the Tigris does not cross(?) |
| 9 | The hoe and the earth basket(?) were brought to an end |
| 8 | The gods of the land who stand... |
| 17 | its tail(?), he... pure water, he did not bring good water |
| 7 | the gods of the land who made them stand by him |
| 4 | At that time,... |
| 3 | At that time, the water from the ground was not brought into the meadow |
| 13 | to the house of the other people he brought |
| 6 | ... like a prince....... |
| 2 | ... like a slander.... |
| 1 | May the name of the enemy, as if it were a ubara weapon, be praised in the nether world. |
| 16 | ...... did not... |
| 5 | As if it were a... watercourse, it was raised in the nether world. |
| 12 | ... their... |
| 10 | ... the hoe and the nape... |
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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