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BM 038939 (P564113)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038939 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564113 |
| Museum no. | BM 038939 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 8' | ... Amurru |
| obverse 10' | ... enemy stood in the halo of the moon |
| reverse 9' | ...... |
| obverse 7' | ... the Lion, the king stand inside it |
| reverse 2' | ... alternatively ama-ilani |
| obverse 9' | ... you put... in the halo of the moon. |
| reverse 7' | ... will die |
| reverse 8' | ... of the iria (precinct) of ditto |
| obverse 1' | ... alternatively, Mars |
| obverse 12' | ...... stands inside it |
| obverse 4' | ... stands in the west in the halo of the moon. |
| obverse 3' | ... stands in the halo of the moon |
| obverse 6' | ... stands in the 'finger' of the moon. |
| reverse 5' | ... 3... shepherd(?) |
| obverse 5' | ... and Jupiter in the Stag |
| obverse 2' | ... which in the place of the Old Man |
| reverse 10' | ... the liar(?) that has been smitten(?) |
| reverse 6' | ...-bu |
| obverse 11' | ...... for... 3... |
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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