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ACh Ishtar 06 (P393725)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ACh Ishtar 06 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393725 |
| 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 |
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 7' | Lugal-irra and Meslamtaea |
| reverse 3 | There will be barley and straw in the land. |
| reverse 5 | ... and |
| reverse 2 | : the Bristle... rises. |
| obverse 11' | The Pleiades to the planets... |
| obverse 4' | Meslamtaea between the horns of the Scorpion |
| reverse 4 | ..., albatanu |
| obverse 20' | If Venus in Nisannu (I) on the day of disappearance of the moon rises on the day of disappearance of the moon and sets in the horn of Aur. |
| obverse 8' | Mercury and Mars |
| obverse 12' | If Venus approaches ama in ebetu (X): there will be a king. |
| obverse 23' | Ditto: he will conquer the land. |
| obverse 9' | If Venus stands in Kislev (IX) in Taurus. |
| obverse 15' | If he is ill : he will die in the land. |
| obverse 26' | (If) in Taritu (Month I), in front of the Capricorn, a fish will fall and |
| obverse 3' | If Venus in Arasamna, Sin, Lugal-irra and |
| obverse 28' | all of their heart's desire. |
| reverse 6 | If... and |
| obverse 29' | ipa means : red: Mars |
| obverse 24' | (means) : head of the Fish. |
| obverse 10' | The great kingship of the land is overwhelmed. |
| obverse 18' | The harvest of the land will prosper; : small. |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 2' | — The planets stand there and |
| obverse 17' | If Venus rises in Tammuz (IV): in the morning it rises |
| obverse 16' | (If) his eyes are very dark in the east: he will die. |
| obverse 6' | There will be famine, barley and straw in the land. |
| obverse 14' | If Venus in ebetu (X) on the day of disappearance in the west |
| obverse 30' | — You stand on her right. |
| obverse 25' | The Yoke : the Capricorn |
| obverse 22' | a report will be given to me in the land. |
| obverse 19' | (If) Venus becomes visible in the evening in the east and. |
| obverse 13' | (If) Venus comes close to Jupiter and |
| reverse 1 | If Venus in Duuzu (Month IV): the Tigris, the moon (and) U.PA |
| obverse 5' | (means) : the Kidney Star becomes visible and the nadtu goes. |
| obverse 27' | If Venus becomes visible in the month of abu (XI) and its right side is split: pregnant women will die. |
| obverse 21' | came out. : In the month of Tammuz (IV), on the fourth day, the Yoke star came out |
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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