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BM 039405 (P564390)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039405 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564390 |
| Museum no. | BM 039405 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | 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 col 3' 1' | he brought in |
| reverse col 3' 13' | may he raise his head with the bitter head. |
| reverse col 3' 12' | he brought back to the river. |
| obverse col 1' 1' | stationed |
| obverse col 1' 2' | stationed |
| obverse col 1' 8' | ... |
| reverse col 3' 5' | he brought out no..., |
| obverse col 1' 6' | it is bitter |
| reverse col 3' 4' | to ignite fire, to not seize |
| reverse col 3' 10' | when a man, the son of his god, has returned |
| reverse col 3' 7' | your bitter brother of the gods, the skin of a man |
| obverse col 1' 4' | at the threshing floor |
| reverse col 3' 6' | the... of the pahala demon came out bitterly |
| obverse col 2' 3' | The house of the evil-doer is to be seized by a man |
| obverse col 1' 5' | the... of the temple built |
| obverse col 1' 3' | stationed |
| obverse col 2' 4' | ... evil ala drums |
| reverse col 3' 11' | he will make his lordship supreme |
| obverse col 2' 1' | ...... |
| obverse col 2' 6' | the evildoer, the evildoer of a man, |
| obverse col 2' 8' | The evildoer of the agana |
| obverse col 1' 7' | ... is a dais |
| obverse col 2' 9' | ...... |
| obverse col 2' 2' | Wording for... |
| reverse col 3' 9' | from the Abzu |
| obverse col 2' 7' | like a bull he has slaughtered and |
| reverse col 3' 14' | ... |
| reverse col 3' 8' | to look at Asalluhi |
| obverse col 2' 5' | they shall cut off the evil-doer |
| reverse col 3' 2' | ... bitterly |
| reverse col 3' 3' | He brought out a... that is not good for the wind |
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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