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BM 039056 (P564187)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039056 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564187 |
| Museum no. | BM 039056 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 6' | If the sun rises on a cloudy day and all day long: an eclipse will take place. |
| reverse 4' | If the sun rises in the morning and all day a cloudburst....... |
| reverse 3' | ... he will receive and... the day........ |
| reverse 10' | On the 25th day: When Anu and Enlil uttered a word |
| reverse 5' | If the sun rises on the day of disappearance of the moon and is surrounded by a halo, and all day the west wind blows: |
| reverse 7' | If the sun rises on a cloudy day and sets: that day the west wind ditto; there will be an eclipse. |
| reverse 9' | If the sun rises on a cloudy day and is dark: the day will be dark. |
| reverse 1' | ... he will receive and the whole day(?) |
| reverse 8' | If the sun rises on a cloudy day and it rises.... |
| reverse 2' | ... he will receive and... the entire day |
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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