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BM 038742+ (P563993)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038742+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P563993 |
| Museum no. | BM 038742 + BM 038747 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
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 5 | the mountain/sea(?) |
| reverse 11' | it is unfavourable. Until sixty years Mercury came out of... |
| reverse 12' | which are written in the mouth of two tablets, written and.... |
| reverse 1' | My eyes have risen up(?) towards me(!?) and my horizon |
| obverse 11 | ... |
| obverse 7 | ...... |
| obverse 3 | ...... |
| obverse 1 | ... its city |
| obverse 17 | ... the gugurum priestess |
| reverse 4' | my lordly shrine |
| obverse 4 | Nanaya |
| reverse 10' | It was the 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month) |
| reverse 5' | my fate |
| reverse 9' | 23rd... |
| reverse 8' | What has he done to my house? |
| obverse 13 | ...... |
| reverse 2' | He has sworn me in the presence of my fate and my nose. |
| obverse 12 | ... his...... |
| obverse 16 | ............... |
| obverse 10 | ......... |
| obverse 2 | ... its city |
| reverse 3' | ... of the land, the water of the land gives |
| reverse 6' | ... of the strewn... |
| obverse 18 | ...... of...... |
| obverse 15 | ... his eyes |
| obverse 6 | ...... |
| obverse 14 | ... king of scribal art... |
| obverse 8 | ......... |
| reverse 7' | When you speak to the house of the man |
| reverse 13' | Nebuchadnezzar, son of Nr-ilu, the chief... |
| obverse 9 | ...... |
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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