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BM 039418 (P564399)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039418 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564399 |
| Museum no. | BM 039418 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 6 | If an anomaly's left lungs are swollen: that land will be scattered. |
| obverse 4 | The enemy will not acquire a rival; the cattle of the enemy will return and speak a word. |
| obverse 3 | If an anomaly's left hand is not present: the god will listen to the prayers of the king. The king of the land will take away his enemy's palace. |
| obverse 5 | If an anomaly's right horn is smashed. |
| reverse 2' | If an anomaly is provided with 3 ears on its left side of the gall bladder and they are in front of them: the reeds will become stable. |
| reverse 4' | If an anomaly is provided with its ears, 3 times its ears are swollen and their ears are like the heads of a prince: the flood will come. |
| reverse 1' | ... is well, he is well, he is well, he is well. |
| obverse 9 | If an anomaly's right horn is split and the wind blows: the land will become happy. |
| obverse 10 | If an anomaly's left lungs are swollen and a wind blows: the enemy's land will be scattered. |
| obverse 12 | If an anomaly's left hand is surrounded by a halo: that animal stall will expand. |
| obverse 8 | If an anomaly's left horn is split: that man will widen his understanding. |
| obverse 7 | If an anomaly's left horn is swollen: that city will be scattered. |
| reverse 3' | If an anomaly is provided with three ears and its neck is swollen: the enemy will devastate the land. |
| reverse 5' | If an anomaly is provided with its ears, 3 times its ears are swollen and its neck is swollen: the prince's troops will die and his land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 11 | If an anomaly's right horn is short: that slave will diminish. |
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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