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BM 038718 (P563975)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038718 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563975 |
| Museum no. | BM 038718 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 4 | ... lightning flashed, the horns of the enemy will enter and the owner will kill him... |
| obverse 7' | ... the enemy enters and...... |
| obverse 2' | ... enemy over... |
| obverse 1' | ... enemy... to... |
| obverse 5' | ... enters and... |
| obverse 12' | ... the troops of the enemy |
| reverse 5 | ... flood |
| reverse 12 | ...... low, rain... |
| obverse 9' | ...... follows it: the enemy's army in the beginning of the field... |
| obverse 10' | ......... |
| reverse 13 | ...... which... |
| reverse 10 | ... lightning flashed, Mercury... |
| reverse 6 | ... his work... will come and..... |
| obverse 8' | ... the army of my land has smashed... |
| reverse 11 | .................. |
| reverse 9 | ... a sword and a weapon you smite... |
| obverse 6' | ... enemy territory... |
| reverse 1 | ... has become stationary... a cloud in the land...... |
| reverse 14 | ...... |
| reverse 2 | ......, arrow, arrow, |
| reverse 15 | ... young... |
| obverse 11' | ... enemy troops in... |
| obverse 13' | ... over the gods... |
| reverse 8 | ... emerges and the enemy will not land... |
| obverse 4' | ... you recite... the incantation and you recite the incantation... |
| reverse 7 | ... will fall and the enemy will.... |
| obverse 3' | ... you recite... the incantation...,...., |
| reverse 3 | ...... a curse, a prince whose head is entrusted to him. |
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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