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BM 039507 (P564453)
Incantation, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 039507 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564453 |
| Museum no. | BM 039507 |
| 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 2' | He bought it for its full price. |
| reverse 6' | In order to make the Anzud bird shine like daylight |
| reverse 4' | When the bird has sat down, |
| reverse 3' | ... water in his words. |
| reverse 0 | may he carry off the dead's necks. |
| reverse 5' | he has guarded, as long as he lives |
| reverse 1' | .............. |
| obverse 3' | ... set |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 2' | ... and... |
| reverse 7' | Anzu, as long as he lives, |
| obverse 4' | ... and... |
| reverse 9' | he wrote to his hand, and |
| reverse 8' | the bird returned to its nest. |
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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