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CT 40, pl. 48-49, BM 108874 (P370931)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 48-49, BM 108874 |
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| ID | P370931 |
| Museum no. | BM 108874 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 4 | If a sickness is present in a man's house and it is covered in the morning: the house will become ill. |
| obverse 1 | If a man carries (it) for his own life and a lion goes from the right of the man to the left of the man: he will recover. |
| reverse 10 | Meli-ipak, king of the craft of the hand of Bl-aard, son of Anu-ahhe-iddin. |
| obverse 11 | If a man approaches the enemy and a lion goes from the left of a man to the left of a man and approaches the right of a man: that man will die. |
| obverse 8 | If a man approaches the enemy and a lion goes from the left of a man to the right of a man: he will die. |
| reverse 19 | If a man is seized by a ghost: the house will be destroyed and he will die. |
| reverse 6 | If a man is seized by the head of the field in order to escape, and a fox goes out from the right of the man to the left of the man: he will recover. |
| obverse 6 | If ditto a journey takes place and a bird stands on the right of a man and it thunders: that man will not go with his eyes. |
| reverse 11 | scribe, small scribe. |
| reverse 1 | If a man, like a child, goes straight to the palace and he is stricken: from the right of a man to the left of a man he will take away that man. |
| obverse 9 | If a man is seized by a man and a lion goes out from the left of a man to the right of a man and goes behind it: that man will conquer his enemy. |
| reverse 8 | If a man is seized by the head of the field in order to escape, and a fox goes out from the left of the man to the right of the man: he will recover. |
| reverse 5 | If a man is ill in a man's house and he is ill in the morning: the household will become ill. |
| obverse 12 | If a man carries a sacrificial snake to his god: he will die and the sacrificial snake from the right of the man to the left of the man. |
| obverse 16 | If a man is surrounded like a lion in a palace and a lion stands from the left of a man to the right of a man: he will prevail over his adversary. |
| reverse 3 | If a sickness is present in a man's house and it is covered in the morning: the house will become ill. |
| reverse 2 | If a man is seized by a ghost and he is seized by a ghost: he will fall from the left of the man to the right. |
| reverse 9 | In all, 25 years, a copy of the land of Subartu. |
| obverse 5 | If ditto a path crosses and a lion's head from the right of a man to the left of a man: he will not succeed. |
| reverse 7 | If a man emerges from the arable land and a pigeon goes on top of it and at the left of the man he strews a pigeon. |
| obverse 4 | If ditto a path crosses and a pigeon goes from the left of a man to the right of a man and he goes to his rear: that man will be killed. |
| obverse 14 | If a man is seized by a sacrifice for his god: he will take (it) and a lion's head from the left (of the man's body) to the left (of the man's body) will fall and he will take (it) to the right of the man. |
| obverse 3 | If ditto a bird stands in front of it and stands there: a man will roar. |
| obverse 15 | If a man takes a sacrifice to his god for taking, and a lion - from the left of a man to the right of a man - will pass the inscription of his god and his goddess over him. |
| obverse 2 | If ditto a pigeon stands on the right (of the gall bladder) and it is swollen: a man will go. |
| obverse 10 | If a man is seized by a man and a lion goes from the left of a man to the right of a man and passes from the left of a man and a taû-mark: the man will die. |
| obverse 7 | If a man is surrounded by a halo and a lion stands from the right of a man to the left of a man and he approaches the left of a man: that man will conquer. |
| obverse 13 | If a man carries a sacrifice to his god and goes from the temple of his god to his temple and a fox goes from the right of a man to the left of a man and passes to the left of a man: that man will die. |
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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