BM.38630 (ebl:BM.38630)
CANONICAL > Historiography > Letter, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.38630 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.38630 |
| Museum no. | BM.38630 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Historiography > Letter |
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 10' | The shakin-priest Nabu |
| reverse 7' | Tablet of Blet-bala to Nusku-taq-ubulli. |
| reverse 1' | Apa- |
| obverse 8' | I... all of them. |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 2' | ...... |
| reverse 2' | You are the qarrdtu and... |
| reverse 5' | a sacrificial omen |
| reverse 4' | I have opened your mouths. |
| obverse 11' | Thus...: |
| reverse 6' | They are guarding... like a trap... |
| obverse 4' | ......... |
| obverse 6' | I, Anungal |
| reverse 11' | Hand of Nabu-eir, scribe. |
| reverse 8' | son of Etel-pî-Marduk wrote |
| reverse 3' | I will bring it to this side of the road... |
| obverse 7' | I am a lamentation singer |
| obverse 9' | To Nusku-taqiabullit, son of Etel-pî-Marduk |
| obverse 3' | ... ditto |
| reverse 9' | Copy of Borsippa. |
| obverse 5' | ... of... |
| reverse 10' | Like his old man, written in a sealed document |
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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