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BM 038531 (P563877)
Administrative, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038531 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563877 |
| Museum no. | BM 038531 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
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 15 | The right and left sides of the 'finger' are split. |
| obverse 5 | If the left side of the 'finger' is black: attack of the enemy. |
| obverse 6 | If the eyes are black: my army will be killed. |
| obverse 20 | If the right and left eyes are seen: my army will be killed. |
| obverse 29 | You set up... the sarpu-demon(?) of the troops of the land(?) |
| obverse 9 | If the right side of the gall bladder is split: a resident of the city and your guard will go to the land. |
| obverse 13 | If the right side of the gall bladder is split: my army will be abandoned. |
| obverse 1 | If the right side of the 'finger' is dark...: my army will be exhausted. |
| obverse 8 | If the 'well-beings' and 'well-beings' are black: your army will fall in battle. |
| obverse 12 | If the left side of the 'finger' is swollen: defeat of the enemy. |
| obverse 14 | If the left side of the 'finger' is split: the enemy's troops will be scattered. |
| obverse 26 | If...... in the hand of a son of a haruspex he does not stand |
| obverse 11 | If the right side of the 'finger' is yellow: defeat of the army. |
| obverse 19 | If the 'outsides' of the 'finger' are split: the enemy will be killed. |
| obverse 28 | ... the sarpu-offering is not pure, a sacrifice is performed. |
| obverse 17 | If the left side of the gall bladder is split: the enemy will be killed. |
| obverse 23 | If the right ewe gives birth to a lion: he will not acquire silver. |
| obverse 27 | ......: he will experience a sacrifice; he will recover. |
| obverse 18 | If the faces of the 'finger' are covered: my enemy will be killed. |
| obverse 7 | If the 'well-beings' are black: the army will be killed. |
| obverse 16 | If the right side of the lung is split: the enemy will kill. |
| obverse 3 | If the 'well-being' is present: fish-of-Baba (and) breccia, whose life is long(?) |
| obverse 10 | If the left side of the gall bladder is split: a resident of the city and a guard of the enemy will die. |
| obverse 21 | If the right and left sides of the 'finger' are split: the enemy's army will be killed. |
| obverse 2 | If the left side of the 'finger' is dark : attack of enemy troops. |
| obverse 22 | If the'station' and'stations' are smashed: a city will be destroyed. |
| obverse 25 | If the right and left of the gall bladder is swollen: a woman who is ill will die. |
| obverse 4 | If the right side of the 'finger' is black: the enemy will attack me. |
| obverse 24 | If the left side of the gall bladder is stricken: to a man whatever he is missing(?) |
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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