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BM.40736 (ebl:BM.40736)
CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Building Rituals, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.40736 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.40736 |
| Museum no. | BM.40736 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Magic > Varia > Building Rituals |
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 4 | In the evening, there will be peace on the day. |
| obverse 3 | of that house, its vacant lot, the haruspex made abundant, and |
| reverse 17 | You place a ring of a lunar ring in his hands. |
| reverse 15 | Afterwards, to destroy the true temple, |
| reverse 25 | ... he set up. |
| reverse 19 | (If) he is stricken on the house of his breast: he will speak, and |
| reverse 18 | the horns of the previous one shall cut off, and |
| obverse 6 | sacrifices are given to Ea and Asalluhi. |
| top 26 | ... the brewer |
| bottom 13 | You put water in the water, and you recite the incantation. |
| reverse 21 | He shall write upon a censer of juniper. |
| obverse 5 | to Ea and Asalluhi they shall prove, and |
| obverse 9 | To Ea, ama and Asalluhi you set up. |
| reverse 23 | they shall cut off on her neck. |
| obverse 10 | You pour dates, ebony, flour, |
| obverse 7 | The lamentation singer set up the lamentation singer, the singer rejoicing |
| reverse 14 | a reign of long days for Ea, ama and Asallui |
| obverse 11 | You set up a libation bowl of ghee. |
| obverse 8 | In the morning, in the middle of that house, |
| reverse 24 | And when Anu created the heavens, |
| bottom 12 | You set up a censer of juniper. You strew seed. |
| obverse 2 | to the naqrimu-festival he set up. |
| reverse 22 | honey, ghee, first-class beer, wine, and good oil. |
| reverse 20 | that brick will be placed in the Parsu-house and |
| reverse 16 | he will weigh out, and that builder of that house |
| obverse 1 | At that time the gate of the temple of the god he shall measure out. |
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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