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BM 038730 (P563983)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038730 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563983 |
| Museum no. | BM 038730 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 10' | ... from a land not chosen by Enlil to the ditto house like ama in his way |
| 8' | ... the house... |
| 9' | From the shrine Nippur, which like Utu came out |
| 11' | In the Ea-kit, his place of relaxation, the garden, the holy sanctuary, his exalted festival, whose joy is filled with joy, |
| 14' | Ekur and nippuru-disease, rejoicing,..., may ditto resound your heart. |
| 7' | May the Ekur be praised in the universe |
| 4' | .... we will be smitten, and our people will speak... |
| 13' | May the Ekur, Nippur, which is laden with rejoicing, be praised! May the lady Ninlil rejoice over you, may your heart be praised! |
| 5' | May he make the heaven and earth rejoice. |
| 1' | The great mother Ninlil, the one who loves the E-ara, the one who provides for the E-kur, the one who provides for the E-giguna, theegis of the E-ki-ur temple |
| 15' | When you sit in your peaceful residence |
| 6' | ... of heaven and netherworld, may you be glad on account of you. |
| 3' | You(?) shall decree the fate of the city(?) of Nippur |
| 12' | ... the akitu-house, his treasury,... the i.e., the akitu-house, his treasury,... the scepter, the exalted one, who is full of rejoicing, |
| 2' | The great name of ditto, the life of ditto the Ekur, the abode of... |
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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