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BM 039459 (P564423)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039459 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564423 |
| Museum no. | BM 039459 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 9' | may he make it grow in the foreign lands. |
| 11' | In the plain he shall make the field speckled and heaped up for him. |
| 2' | of the shepherd of the black-headed, Anu |
| 4' | ... in a snare, in a snare, in a snare... |
| 7' | ... abundance in the universe |
| 6' | ... pure... to restore the shrines of the black-headed people. In his hands... |
| 1' | the king, the exalted shepherd of An and Enlil |
| 5' | The one of the lapis lazuli scepter, the shepherd of the black-headed |
| 3' | the throne of all the gods |
| 10' | They should bear the responsibility of the debts and the debts. |
| 8' | May.................. |
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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