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BM 038729 (P563982)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038729 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563982 |
| Museum no. | BM 038729 |
| 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 2' | great hero, lord of Asalluhi |
| reverse 11' | ... their praises |
| obverse 15' | the city lord of Etemenki |
| obverse 7' | the cities and warriors of Muzbbasa |
| reverse 3' | The city was destroyed, the temple was destroyed. |
| obverse 17' | I am the one who makes the lands rejoice like heaven |
| reverse 1' | ... he will measure out. |
| reverse 2' | ... the bedchamber |
| obverse 16' | the great hero, lord of the E-dara-ana |
| obverse 11' | of the city lord of Dr-Sibba |
| reverse 8' | When they have destroyed the women's quarters, their oil is poured out |
| obverse 6' | the great hero, the pae priest of the shrine |
| reverse 4' | The awe-inspiring radiance of the mother was imposed upon the enemy, its aura |
| reverse 9' | When they have destroyed the enemy's houses, their eyes are |
| reverse 16' | weeping |
| reverse 13' | The city, the temple of tin-tirki, the calf, its calf |
| reverse 7' | When they have destroyed the city, its oil... |
| obverse 4' | great hero, lord of Enbilulu |
| obverse 12' | great hero, lord of the Ilurugu |
| reverse 10' | he gave to him the... reeds |
| obverse 10' | chief hero of the Esaggil temple |
| obverse 14' | great hero, lord of the Ematila |
| reverse 6' | When they have destroyed the house and the fields, its oil |
| obverse 9' | the city lord of Babylon |
| obverse 3' | the city lord of Asar-alimnuna |
| reverse 12' | The city, the house of the calf and the calf |
| reverse 5' | to destroy, to destroy, to destroy, to destroy, to destroy, |
| obverse 5' | the alim-officials of Urukeb |
| obverse 1' | It is the city and lord of Amaruk |
| obverse 13' | high priestess of the Ezida temple |
| reverse 14' | The papnunanki gods... the calf and the calf |
| obverse 8' | the great hero Dikuma |
| reverse 15' | He weeps, he weeps, he weeps, he weeps |
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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