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BM 039160 (P564243)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039160 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564243 |
| Museum no. | BM 039160 |
| 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 2' | father |
| reverse 6' | and a fate of abundance |
| reverse 12' | may his sheep offerings in the sheepfold be removed. |
| obverse 3' | the corpses |
| obverse 6' | the holy cattlepen of Enlil |
| obverse 8' | the holy cattlepen of Enlil |
| reverse 11' | may his oxen and sheep and goats be removed from him. |
| reverse 10' | at the ziggurrat of the holy Abzu, everything of pureness |
| obverse 9' | wide sheepfold |
| obverse 14' | They (the gods) were able to (re)build the forest (and) greatly (re)build it. |
| reverse 9' | beloved of Uga Asalluhi, son of Eridu |
| obverse 12' | As for the wild animals of the steppe, they are the ones who lay down in the meadows. |
| reverse 8' | incantation of Enki, king of the Abzu |
| reverse 5' | ... man |
| obverse 11' | ewes and lambs, their small goats, were piled up in the ground. |
| obverse 2' | in battle and battle |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 4' | In the city there was abundance |
| reverse 3' | in the temple |
| obverse 13' | Its head was not raised to its top |
| reverse 7' | May a man restore it to its place. |
| reverse 1' | at the gate |
| obverse 10' | the sheepfold of Dumuzi |
| obverse 5' | evil-doer |
| reverse 4' | ... house |
| obverse 7' | small calf |
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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