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BM 039429 (P564406)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039429 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564406 |
| Museum no. | BM 039429 |
| 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 3 | The name of Enlil is Enlil. The name of Enlil is Enlil to the Scorpion and its deaths are Enlil with him. |
| obverse 4 | (If) the moon appears in its midst and... |
| reverse 3' | May he make my hands happy... |
| obverse 10 | The palace of Adad.... |
| obverse 6 | ........ a lion, and he will not enter the Ekur. He will speak... |
| obverse 7 | the KA-a-priest of the god Enlil, the name of Dagan and Erra, swore, and to the river |
| reverse 5' | Tablet...... |
| reverse 4' | ... like his heir... |
| obverse 5 | Urbarra, Enki and Anu, the name of Enki, from the boundary territory of Enki, his father, |
| obverse 8 | The order of Ea...... |
| obverse 9 | oxen and Alala... their supplications. |
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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