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BM 040012 (P564784)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 040012 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564784 |
| Museum no. | BM 040012 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| 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 9' | ... in the city...... |
| obverse? col 2 15' | In the city he has been snatched, in silence and silence.... |
| obverse? col 2 18' | My lady, you are the one who loves me. |
| obverse? col 2 20' | She spoke to the lady of the house of Enlil: |
| obverse? col 2 2' | ...... |
| obverse? col 2 6' | My lady, she has not sat down in a leather bag, she has not sat down(?) |
| obverse? col 2 1' | ......... |
| obverse? col 2 7' | ........... he does not let her go out, he does not let her go out. |
| obverse? col 2 11' | kurgarû-plant in......... |
| obverse? col 2 10' | ... a lament... a lament... |
| obverse? col 2 5' | Ditto, the sistu-priests and the tanu-priests, they shall remove her. |
| obverse? col 2 13' | ... in the dwellings... |
| obverse? col 2 17' | he swore to me for a word in my heart |
| obverse? col 2 12' | The weeping of the various weeping |
| obverse? col 2 14' | In the city, he is a lion, he is a lion |
| obverse? col 2 4' | The Anuna gods wept bitter tears. |
| obverse? col 2 19' | my mistress |
| obverse? col 2 8' | My city, the nugig midwife |
| obverse? col 2 3' | ......... |
| obverse? col 2 16' | The nugig midwife, the one who... the midst of the heart |
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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