CT 28, pl. 37, K 00798 (P336148)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 28, pl. 37, K 00798 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336148 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| 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 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] 11–11 | If a cow gives birth to three (young): the mind of the land will change. |
| Obverse [1:3] 22–33 | If a cow gives birth to three (young), and 2 are male, 1 female: severity (of cold in that) year; the harvest will not prosper. |
| Obverse [3:5] 44–55 | If a falcon hunts in a man's house: there will be deaths in the man's house. |
| Obverse [5:10] 66– | [If] a falcon hunts and [another] falcon takes it away: [the e]nemy will plunder and put [......]. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | [If a snake] hangs down [from ... of the ent]rance and cuts off the way to a [man's] house: this house will have a protective deity. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | I searched in the tablet about snakes; this (omen) is pertinent. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BE AB₂ 03 U₃.TU UMUŠ KUR MIN₃-ni | |
| 2 | BE AB₂ 03 U₃.TU-ma 02 NITA 01 MI₂ | |
| 3 | da-na-an MU.AN.NA BURU₁₄ NU SI.SA₂ | |
| 4 | 1 ŠUR₂.DU₃{mušen} ina E₂ NA bu-ʾu-u-ra DU₃-uš | |
| 5 | BA.UŠ₂ ina E₂ NA UŠ₂ | |
| 6 | 1 ŠUR₂.DU₃{mušen} bu-ʾu-u-ra DU₃-ma | |
| 7 | [x] ŠUR₂.DU₃{mušen} e-kim-šu₂ | |
| 8 | {[lu₂]}KUR₂ hu-ub-tu₂ i-hab-bat-ma | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ GAR-an | |
| r | ||
| 1' | 1 MUŠ TA x x ne₂]-⸢re⸣-bi BI uš-qa-⸢li⸣-lam-ma | |
| 2' | ⸢A.RA₂ E₂⸣ [NA] ip-ru-us | |
| 3' | E₂ BI DINGIR TUK-ši | |
| 4' | ina DUB-pi ša MUŠ ub-ta-ʾi-i | |
| 5' | an-ni-u šu-u ina UGU-hi qur-bu | |
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
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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