Unread Atlas
BM 038508 (P563860)
Purchase and sale contracts, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | BM 038508 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563860 |
| Museum no. | BM 038508 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Purchase and sale contracts |
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 col 1 1' | shepherd of the wide people, warrior, shepherd |
| obverse col 1 8' | When Marduk, lord of Esaggil and Babylon |
| obverse col 1 9' | the great gods, with their pure hands |
| reverse col 4 5' | May a good deed be established for him |
| obverse col 1 10' | to Babylon his return spoke |
| obverse col 1 15' | I marched against the great god Marduk and |
| obverse col 1 14' | I set his face towards Bb-il. |
| reverse col 4 7' | May the lord of fates make him gloomy(?) |
| obverse col 1 6' | The king who goes at the fore of the people. |
| reverse col 4 3' | the foundation of his royal throne for days |
| obverse col 1 2' | the one who establishes the foundation of his father’s throne |
| obverse col 1 11' | and Marduk set his face to Babylon. |
| reverse col 4 1' | May he give long days to him. |
| obverse col 1 13' | I was assiduous towards the shrine of Marduk. |
| obverse col 1 12' | To the word of Marduk the great(?) |
| obverse col 1 4' | The great one, who dwells in the pure sanctuaries, |
| reverse col 4 6' | Marduk, who loves his reign |
| obverse col 1 3' | king of Kazallu and Akkad |
| reverse col 4 2' | Beloved of ama, pre-eminent of heaven and earth |
| reverse col 4 4' | May the long days be established for Ea, the lord |
| obverse col 1 5' | The king of the land will be present and will be well. |
| obverse col 1 7' | The four quarters of the world, I am the favorite of the great gods. |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.