In Omens
Halos around the moon (Enūma Anu Enlil)
Lunar omens from the celestial series Enūma Anu Enlil, copied at Nineveh.
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| Designation | K.200 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | K.200 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Sîn (EAE 1–22) |
| Provenience | Nineveh |
| Findspot | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
| CDLI no. | P393785 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 107 (103 with machine English) |
Machine draft. English generated by model atf-en-best-v2 (montycrypto/atf-to-english) (version d871547f92875415dbbc7f4a37fd65e35f8ac97d) on 2026-10-05, line by line from the ATF. Not a scholarly translation.
The transliteration is not reproduced here because the source (electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich) is not marked as republishable; read it at the source link above.
| Line | English (machine draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse | |
| 1' | If... |
| 2' | If the Moon is surrounded by a halo and....... |
| 3' | If it is dark: the king... his land. |
| 4' | If a star stands in it....... |
| 5' | If the Field... |
| 6' | If the Arrow on the... day.... |
| 7' | If he does not have a gate, in that month...... barley and straw... |
| 8' | If his gate... to the south, the south wind... and the doors of the temples of the gods... |
| 9' | If his gate is open to the north: there will be famine in the land. |
| 10' | If his gate is open to the east: the city wall will be seized. |
| 11' | If his gate is open to the west: Adad will devastate and he will recover. |
| 12' | If his gate... to a wind (or) rains to the land.... |
| 13' | If he is stricken and he is stricken: on the day of disappearance of the south wind... |
| 14' | If the Moon is surrounded by a halo and its gate is open to the south: there will be a wall in the land. |
| 15' | If its gate is open to the north: ditto lions in the land.... |
| 16' | If his gate to the east (is) the wall of the palace |
| 17' | If his gate is dark on the west side... |
| 18' | 4 lines in the tablet nima(?) |
| 19' | If the Moon is surrounded by a halo |
| 20' | If in the beginning.......... |
| 21' | If in the head...... stars... |
| 22' | If his gate.......... |
| 23' | If his gate... water.... |
| 24' | If he... his gate......... |
| 25' | If his gate............. |
| 26' | If the Moon is surrounded by a halo...... white....... |
| 27' | If the gate of... is open(?): there will be no fish in the Apsu; in |
| 28' | If his gate... towards the south |
| 29' | If its gate is open to the north: the wall will be surrounded by a halo on the 20th and.... |
| 30' | If his gate to the east... wall |
| 31' | If his gate to the west.... |
| 32' | If his gate is surrounded by a fog: a wall in that month(?) will occur in the land. |
| 33' | If the Moon is surrounded by a black halo: the month will bring rains. |
| 34' | If he does not open the gate/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/door/(?) |
| 35' | If its gate is open to the south: the wall. |
| 36' | If its gate is open to the north: the wall of that month will die. |
| 37' | If his gate is open to the east: that city wall. |
| 38' | If he opens his gate to the west: in that month there will be death. |
| 39' | If he opens his gate to the wind: the wall will diminish. |
| 40' | If his gate is open to the lands and the west: the day will be long and the goats. |
| 41' | If he is black: the land will listen to... |
| 42' | If the Moon is surrounded by a red halo: month: rain,... famine. |
| 43' | If he does not have a gate and he does not have a gate, the interest of a donkey.... |
| 44' | If his gate is open to the south: the city wall will... |
| 45' | If his gate to the north... wall |
| 46' | If he opens his gate to the east: the wall of fish in the river. |
| 47' | If his gate to the west is open: birds in the sky... |
| 48' | If he opens his gate to a wind: there will be a flood of the land. |
| 49' | If his gate is low to the south and north: he will die. |
| 50' | ... a scepter of scepter. Ditto. |
| 51 | If the Moon is surrounded by a yellow halo, and it does not have a gate: a rebellion will take place in the land of Erra. |
| reverse | |
| 1' | |
| 2' | |
| 3' | |
| 4' | |
| 5' | If his gate to... |
| 6' | If his gate... |
| 7' | If his gate to |
| 8' | If his gate to... |
| 9' | You open his gate to the... land |
| 10' | Its ritual for a ritual assemblage... |
| 11' | If the Moon is surrounded by a halo and a red cloud...: the king.... |
| 12' | If a cloudburst comes close and the south wind blew: the king... |
| 13' | If a red cloud flashes, and the north wind blew, to the4.6th day. |
| 14' | If he is stricken and a red cloud flashes, and the wind blew for the day:. |
| 15' | If he is ill and a red cloud flashes, and the wind bl[ews] to the4.3th day. |
| 16' | If the Moon at the beginning of the night is surrounded by a halo, at the beginning of the night.... |
| 17' | If the sun is surrounded by a halo, and the Moon is surrounded by a halo,... in front of.... |
| 18' | If the Moon, on the night of the sun, is surrounded by a halo of reeds: in its eclipse, a halo... |
| 19' | If the Moon is surrounded by a halo, Adad will devastate the land. |
| 20' | If the sun stands in the halo of the moon: in the land there will be truth; the son will speak the truth with his father. |
| 21' | If the Moon is surrounded by a halo....... |
| 22' | If the Moon ditto is surrounded by a halo, and Ninurta stands inside it: the enemy's land will be destroyed. |
| 23' | If ulpa’e does not stand in his hand: there will be famine and in the land. |
| 24' | If there is a ulpa'e-plant in their midst: attack of the Westland. |
| 25' | If there is a rainbow in their midst:... will diminish. |
| 26' | If he, who is not inside, is like a rainbow of the netherworld: there will be famine and famine. |
| 27' | If ditto to the halo like a rainbow: the harvest of the land will diminish and barley will not enter. |
| 28' | If a star stands inside it:... will not change(?) the barley. |
| 29' | If the Moon ditto is surrounded by a halo and stars stand inside it: there will be barley and straw in the land. |
| 30' | If the stars stand on the right and left: in battle the enemy will attack the enemy, and he will die. |
| 31' | If... and it is covered in red wool: there will be famine in the land and famine. |
| 32' | (means) : there will be frost in the land........... |
| 33' | If it is red and it stands in the stars: defeat will not take place.... |
| 34' | If he is a kiditu who is not red: there will be illness in the land. |
| 35' | If he is a black kidû-demon: the land will be seized. Ditto... to the land where he lives. |
| 36' | If it is black: rains.......... |
| 37' | If he does not have a gate: the land... |
| 38' | If their gate is open to the north: the city wall of Akkad will be scattered. |
| 39' | If their gate is open to the north: the enemy's land will be scattered. |
| 40' | If their gate is dark: the land will be destroyed. |
| 41' | If their gate is dark: the land will be destroyed. |
| 42' | If their gate is dark: the land will be destroyed. |
| 43' | If there is a mole on the left side of the door: there will be no 'well-being' of the enemy's heart. The enemy's people will... in the land. |
| 44' | (If) their ears are swollen and their property are good: loss of their property will be destroyed. |
| 45' | If it is favourable and it is favorable to the north: the son of the king will become happy. |
| 46' | If it is favourable and it is raining on the south and on the south side: my troops will be seized by the command of a god... |
| 47' | If he is seized and he is seized by a king and... |
| 48' | If he is ill and he is ill for... Adad : the land will devastate |
| 49' | If he is ill and he is ill in... |
| 50' | If it is swollen:... |
| 51' | If... and... |
| 52' | If the Moon is 3 cubits....... |
| 53' | If ditto....... |
| 54' | ... |
| 55' | ... |
| 56' | If... |