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BM.34250 (ebl:BM.34250)
CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.34250 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.34250 |
| Museum no. | BM.34250 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological |
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) |
|---|---|
| 12' | If a ewe gives birth to 7 (children) and 3 deaths: 4 women will die. |
| 4' | If a ewe gives birth to 3 (children), and it is provided with a shakluqtu-disease. |
| 3' | If a ewe gives birth to 3 (ewes), and their skins are swollen: the king's reign will change. |
| 1' | If a ewe gives birth to 3 (children): the land will prosper. |
| 2' | ... wide... to... |
| 6' | If a ewe gives birth to 4 ewes and their skins: Ninmudu, the king... Hamme'e, destruction of Elam. |
| 5' | If a ewe gives birth to 4 (children): that land will seize a land; there will be frost in the land. |
| 11' | If a ewe gives birth to 6 (children), news of the people. |
| 9' | If a ewe gives birth to 5 ewes, 1 bull's head, 1 lion's head, 1 lion's head, |
| 7' | If a ewe gives birth to 4 and it is provided with a tibû-plant: attack of Elam. |
| 8' | If a ewe gives birth to 5 (children), there will be famine in the land; the owner of the ram will die. |
| 10' | There are 1 ram's head. The sagashatu-disease is present in the land. |
Sources & licences
- 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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