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Iraq 29, 117-128 (P565158)
Omens, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Iraq 29, 117-128 |
|---|---|
| ID | P565158 |
| Museum no. | BM 033726 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Omens |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | they shall kill in the threshing floor of the house and the king his land will divide. |
| 5' | ... the...s, their guards, |
| 10' | ... which emerges: a plow of strength, a wall and the people of the land will be full of. |
| 1' | ... the furious(?)...,..,..,.. |
| 2' | ... nashutu (means) : he set up a firm foundation, and... |
| 3' | ...... the incantation-priests will become numerous, the son of the incantation-priests... |
| 8' | (If) a king and his friend enters his palace: the city will be destroyed with the city's house. |
| 9' | “My brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, with a weapon will devastate |
| 4' | ... a man will take away everything... he will return to his messenger.... |
| 7' | The king of Akkad did not reach him. The king of Babylon |
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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