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CT 39, pl. 08, K 08406 (P370788)
CANONICAL, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 39, pl. 08, K 08406 |
|---|---|
| ID | P370788 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL |
| 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 18 | ... he will die. |
| obverse 3 | (If) he strews a furrow: |
| obverse 14 | ... he will experience illness in the land. |
| obverse 5 | (If) they are stricken: they will become frightened. |
| obverse 13 | ............ |
| obverse 16 | ... will not become good. |
| reverse 1' | ... is its name. |
| obverse 4 | If in a favorable month, or in a favorable month, |
| obverse 10 | ... fallow...; |
| reverse 4' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 8 | ... over his wife there is a hole in his heart. |
| reverse 2' | If a dog dies: that land will become happy. |
| obverse 11 | ... watercourses, sand dunes, lions and wolves. |
| obverse 12 | [... Adad] will cast down the battles of Adad. |
| obverse 20 | ... donkey(?) |
| obverse 17 | ... there will be no..., |
| obverse 19 | ... there will be... in the land. : ZAH. |
| obverse 1 | If he sees a man, he will be able to smite a large reed fence. |
| obverse 2 | If he is a widow, he will have to pay (back) everything he has not given to him. |
| obverse 7 | It is the first year that it is a second year. |
| obverse 15 | ... there will be... in the land. |
| reverse 3' | The 59th tablet. |
| obverse 9 | ... water will be poured with it. |
| obverse 6 | For the first year, (as for) a tree, a cedar, (and) wine, it is favourable. |
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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