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BM 039267 (P564299)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039267 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564299 |
| Museum no. | BM 039267 |
| 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 5' | Whoever breaks the contract shall pay the money tenfold to its owner. Should he litigate in the lawsuit, he will not succeed. |
| obverse 3 | by Ninurta, foremost of the supreme strength, who gives birth to the mountain, |
| obverse 1 | the king, when divine powers and divine powers are supreme |
| reverse 1' | In order to cut down the judgments of Ninurta, the lord who is like you in the land |
| reverse 4' | who shall establish the fates of its great shrines |
| obverse 2 | The king, the day whose aura and radiance... |
| reverse 7' | He sings, "His supplication is sweet," he recites: |
| reverse 8' | its eyes he set up. |
| obverse 6 | The flood is a flood, it is not a flood, which enters the land. |
| obverse 4 | (and) ditto, the foremost of all rulers, who loves the mountain range, |
| reverse 2' | O ditto, my lord, as he deems best, the judgment of the land will be determined. |
| reverse 3' | Who will receive his divine radiance from him? |
| obverse 7 | the hero who stands at battle : the hero who stands at battle : |
| reverse 6' | he smote(?) your hand, he smote your face with a reddish aura |
| obverse 5 | who does not fear the flood and the rebel land |
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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