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CT 51, 147 (P286008)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 51, 147 |
|---|---|
| ID | P286008 |
| Museum no. | BM 122626 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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 14' | If a man is seized by a curse: he will be killed. |
| reverse 23' | If his skin is like a lion: he will die in a weapon. |
| obverse 1' | If... life... |
| obverse 25' | If he is speaking with him: he will acquire barley. |
| obverse 10' | If a tamatu-plant is placed on his (personal) god: |
| reverse 22' | If his wife appoints him, he will recover. |
| reverse 2' | (If) a god screams: |
| obverse 29' | If in the street of the city, the sun quakes: his night will be overcast. |
| obverse 33' | If he is a frightened man,... |
| obverse 30' | If he is a lion, he will die. |
| obverse 20' | If an omen is good: he will make a favorable case. |
| reverse 27' | [Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it? |
| reverse 9' | If he is stricken and he is stricken: he will die. |
| reverse 12' | If he is ill for a long time: he will go before him. |
| obverse 36' | If the mouth is not open: he will go in a lawsuit. |
| reverse 7' | If he is a swollen eagle: his mouth will be full. |
| obverse 22' | If his hands are swollen: sorrow. |
| obverse 31' | If there is a mole on the... |
| obverse 5' | If...... your life....... |
| reverse 10' | If he is a ulmnu-demon, he will give him his seed. |
| obverse 21' | If his approach is located: sorrow will be seen. |
| obverse 17' | If he sees a yellow-green ox: he will die. |
| reverse 24' | Tablet 1: If Ea (is) your life. |
| obverse 8' | If Itar, your life is sorrowful |
| reverse 15' | If a sorcerer makes a man's body: he will die. |
| obverse 26' | If it is said with his body: he will build a house. |
| reverse 21' | If a man's property is seized: he will reach the highest rank. |
| reverse 26' | which Itar and Tashmetu gave wide understanding, |
| obverse 13' | If the head is seized, Marduk will have mercy on him. |
| reverse 4' | (If) he sees a bad omen: he will die. |
| reverse 14' | If a uani-demon afflicts him: |
| obverse 34' | If a report... her daughter... |
| obverse 6' | If......., your life will be long. |
| obverse 11' | If he afflicts me, he will acquire the moon. |
| reverse 25' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 35' | If the mouth is swollen: a god will have mercy; his heart will not become happy... |
| obverse 2' | If...: he will live.... |
| reverse 16' | If he is stricken on the men: he will die. |
| obverse 24' | [If] his head [behind him], |
| obverse 19' | If a uznu-plant screams at him for a good thing: |
| obverse 7' | If..., your life will be prolonged in his flesh(?) |
| obverse 39' | If he is ill for his god: he will die. |
| obverse 16' | If a man, when he is constantly frightened, his.... |
| reverse 1' | If a god is seized by a god: |
| reverse 6' | If he sees a man, he will not guard anything. |
| obverse 28' | If on the head of a man of azur the head of a man |
| obverse 32' | If a warrior's heart is not happy... |
| reverse 5' | If he is ill, he will not die. |
| obverse 18' | If his hands are swollen: you wipe clean. |
| reverse 20' | If an anomaly is located inside a man's land: the land will be destroyed. |
| reverse 8' | If a man, who smites a fog in his midst, |
| reverse 13' | If he is ill for a long time: he will speak well. |
| reverse 18' | If a sow eats a thin bread |
| obverse 27' | If he is ill: he will go. |
| obverse 15' | If he (the patient) seized him, he will die. |
| reverse 29' | The wisdom of Nabû, the one who carries out your sand dunes, as many as there are |
| reverse 17' | If on account of the men he is stationed, |
| obverse 9' | If bread is not good in the mouth of a man, for ama it is good. |
| obverse 4' | If.... your life... |
| obverse 37' | If he (= Itar-Ninurta) (= EAE 24(25) I 20) (means): end of |
| obverse 3' | ... your life |
| reverse 19' | If a man gives birth to in a street: he will complete the extispicy. |
| obverse 38' | If a day is darkened: end of.... |
| obverse 23' | If his head rises, where he is not greeted, |
| reverse 3' | If a place where the sun rises, its midst is dark, its rear is dark. |
| reverse 28' | Whoever among the kings who preceded me has not received that work, whether the king or the king, my lord, or the king, my lord, or the king, my lord, or the king, my lord, or the king, my lord, or the king, my lord, or the king, my lord, or the king, my lord, or the |
| reverse 11' | If he is ill for as long as he lives. |
| obverse 12' | If the foot reaches me: the sun will have no rival. |
| reverse 30' | I wrote, collated, and collated it. |
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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