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BM 038832 (P564047)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038832 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564047 |
| Museum no. | BM 038832 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 3' | ......... |
| 15' | If from the 1st day to the 30th day the king of the Westland will give the throne. |
| 10' | If on the 20th day and the river level is scattered in the river: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| 8' | If on the 16th day the king of Elam defeats him and... |
| 9' | If on the 18th day: the city, the king, and his people will be well. |
| 6' | ... the king will make a rebellion : evil will arise and the gate....... |
| 18' | ............ |
| 13' | If on the 29th day: the king's reign will end; the land will be destroyed and the land will experience evil. |
| 14' | If the moon becomes stationary on the 30th day: the king of that land will die and his son and son will seize the throne. |
| 16' | If the day is dark: Venus and Itar will see him. The king... his name. |
| 7' | If on the 14th day... bread.... |
| 5' | ...... the king's son... |
| 11' | If on the 21st day... the king of the Westland.......... |
| 4' | ... there will be hunger in the land. Ditto....... |
| 2' | ... her neck... |
| 17' | If it is dark and the day is yellow: the king will not dwell in that land. |
| 12' | If on the 28th day: the city, the king, and his people will be reconciled; the lands will be plundered; the harvest of the land will diminish; ditto. |
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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