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CT 39, pl. 13, K 09163 (P370790)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 39, pl. 13, K 09163 |
|---|---|
| ID | P370790 |
| 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 |
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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) |
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| reverse 11 | If in the evening a man sees a plant on the ground: that land will be destroyed. |
| reverse 4 | If in the centre of the city he sees a dark spot: that man will have a strong king. |
| reverse 9 | If in the centre of the city a plant....... |
| reverse 5 | If he sees a nagû-plant in the centre of the city: that man will become good for all day. |
| reverse 1 | (If) a...-plant... a...-plant |
| reverse 6 | If in the middle of the city a white naû-plant is seen: that man will experience sorrow. |
| reverse 2 | If in the centre of the city a fox sees a fox: that man. |
| reverse 7 | If he sees a...-plant in the centre of the city:.... |
| reverse 10 | If in the centre of the city and the seed.......... |
| reverse 3 | If in the centre of the city............. |
| reverse 8 | If he sees a swollen thigh in the centre of the city: that man will be destroyed. |
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- 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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