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BM 039416 (P564397)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039416 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564397 |
| Museum no. | BM 039416 |
| 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 col 1' 8' | for his marriage gift ditto |
| reverse col 1' 1' | ...... |
| obverse col 1 6' | high quality tin |
| reverse col 1' 5' | May it be exalted, may it not be forgotten. |
| reverse col 1' 4' | they are exalted |
| obverse col 1 2' | ...... |
| reverse col 1' 9' | his bread he shall eat. |
| obverse col 1 1' | ...... |
| reverse col 1' 7' | not to be recited |
| obverse col 1 4' | silver tin |
| reverse col 1' 3' | they put in order. |
| reverse col 1' 2' | he has made it shine like daylight. |
| obverse col 1 7' | ...... |
| reverse col 1' 6' | he built. |
| obverse col 1 3' | to make good, to make good |
| obverse col 1 5' | pure silver for the foreign lands |
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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