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CT 39, pl. 38, K 04057 (P366136)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 39, pl. 38, K 04057 |
|---|---|
| ID | P366136 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 16 | If....... |
| obverse 17 | If....... |
| obverse 18 | If....... |
| obverse 19 | If....... |
| obverse 21 | If....... |
| obverse 22 | If....... |
| obverse 7 | ... a white pigeon that... all |
| reverse 14' | If a man ditto: lightning will come and he will stand (there) and his hand to the king... |
| reverse 20' | If a man ditto: he will eat wine and he will become ill. |
| obverse 20 | If... becomes visible |
| obverse 9 | A white pigeon whose body is shaved off in the city |
| obverse 4 | The land will be scattered. |
| obverse 12 | he was angry and their wife was struck with a weapon. |
| reverse 26' | If there is a mole on the left side of the beer: that man will be killed. |
| reverse 21' | If a man ditto: he will die. |
| reverse 4' | If a man is seized by a reed-bed: he will die. |
| obverse 25 | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder: that mole will go out. |
| obverse 8 | in the... of the palace... of the palace. |
| reverse 15' | If a man ditto: he will die and he will go; his sacrifice will be completed.... he will receive... |
| reverse 7' | If ditto a solar disk is located on the horizon: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| reverse 16' | If a man ditto is surrounded by a halo, and he goes to the wall and... a black and...-plant.... |
| reverse 1' | ... his... |
| reverse 3' | If ditto he constantly seeks out the ditto and the base of the middle 'finger' of the lung |
| obverse 6 | To the king of Dilmun |
| reverse 23' | If a man ditto: plant will devour and will not prosper. |
| reverse 2' | If ditto his body is swollen: he will die. |
| reverse 19' | If a man ditto: he will burn a fire and he will recover. |
| obverse 2 | If a sow becomes visible in the land: the land will go to ruin. |
| reverse 18' | If a man approaches the house of his god: he will experience bronze, and he will recover. |
| reverse 9' | If ditto a god hears him in the lap of ditto. |
| reverse 27' | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'finger': he will die. |
| obverse 13 | If in a reed bed it has a reed bed: that city will eat strong hunger. |
| reverse 22' | he eats and does not eat it |
| reverse 17' | If a man ditto: his garment will not be loosened. |
| obverse 24 | If the earth quakes: the king will die. |
| obverse 10 | ...... |
| reverse 13' | If a man ditto: he will go and.... |
| obverse 14 | If.... |
| obverse 15 | If.... |
| reverse 24' | If a man ditto: he will approach a woman in his dream and he will not become frightened. |
| obverse 11 | Total: The river level of beer in the middle of the city is seen. |
| obverse 1 | If there is a mole in the land: the end of the land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 5 | (If) a black pigeon becomes visible in the centre of the palace |
| obverse 23 | If there is a mole on the field: there will be famine. |
| reverse 5' | If a man is stricken with water: he will not live. |
| reverse 11' | [If] he sees a reed...: he will not acquire an opponent. |
| obverse 3 | If an anomaly is located from the sky in the middle of the sky: |
| reverse 6' | If he is stricken in the river: he will die. |
| reverse 8' | If ditto (a man will die) |
| reverse 25' | Its ritual: it is not visible before god. |
| reverse 28' | If a man is surrounded by a garment: he will recover. |
| reverse 10' | If ditto (a man) is stricken in a carp (or) in a carp (lit. in a carp): |
| reverse 12' | If a man is seized by the day: to the god... |
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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