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BM 040009 (P564779)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 040009 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564779 |
| Museum no. | BM 040009 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
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? col 2 3' | her land Azal- |
| obverse? col 1 9' | My limbs and limbs... |
| obverse? col 2 6' | Bb-ilni |
| reverse? col 5 4' | he is constantly attentive to the shrines of the gods. |
| obverse? col 1 4' | ... heard, and |
| reverse? col 5 6' | The food offerings of the great gods are set aside. |
| obverse? col 1 5' | Ur may he tear out |
| reverse? col 5 2' | he returned to its place |
| obverse? col 1 3' | Whoever in the future, at the command of the great gods, lodges a complaint and breaks the contract, whether Nabû or his sons or his grandsons, and seeks a lawsuit or litigation against Adad and his sons and his grandsons, |
| obverse? col 2 10' | his (personal) god |
| obverse? col 2 8' | The thin Esagil temple |
| obverse? col 2 4' | 'Let them be brought to me,...... |
| obverse? col 1 6' | of Borsippa |
| reverse? col 5 3' | GIR.SU and IR.BUR.LA |
| obverse? col 2 7' | until......... |
| obverse? col 2 5' | Esagil... |
| obverse? col 1 8' | at the... gate |
| obverse? col 2 2' | to a muddu-vessel not |
| reverse? col 5 5' | they shall do. |
| obverse? col 2 11' | ...... |
| obverse? col 2 1' | ...... |
| obverse? col 1 1' | ... made me submit(?) |
| obverse? col 1 2' | 'The day and his (personal) god |
| reverse? col 5 9' | and PAe he shall do |
| reverse? col 5 7' | to their places |
| obverse? col 2 9' | or... |
| reverse? col 5 1' | ... not(?) |
| obverse? col 1 7' | in his... may he be sated. |
| reverse? col 5 8' | ... Enlil |
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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