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AAT pl. 56 (P393741)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Adad (EAE 36–49); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AAT pl. 56 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393741 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Adad (EAE 36–49); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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 17' | If on a day that is not clear Adad thunders: there will be famine in the land. |
| reverse 6 | .......... |
| obverse 4' | there will be...; the harvest of the land will diminish; in Nisannu (I) an eclipse will take place and on that day Adad roars. |
| obverse 20' | If Adad sees Adad: Adad will seize (it) with stone from heaven. |
| obverse 16' | If Adad reaches its normal length: rains will diminish. |
| reverse 12 | ... fall and their stars... fall. The Tigris and Euphrates |
| obverse 12' | ... Adad has become dark with the moon: rains will be released. |
| reverse 1 | If Adad... a stone(?), the small harvest of the land will eat(?) its property(?), the harvest of the land will... in the land.... |
| obverse 13' | (gloss: break) : rain will not diminish. The field will diminish. |
| reverse 18 | (If) their... fall: Adad will devastate the dais of Dilimbabbar. |
| obverse 10' | ... in Nisannu (I) from the 1st to the 30th day Adad roared fiercely. |
| reverse 16 | ......... and 55(?) years a man eats a man |
| reverse 10 | ... the evil demon..... he will be sated. |
| obverse 6' | ... your supplications are not your supplications. When they are red, the wall is red. The 14th day of Nisannu Adad roars. |
| reverse 7 | ... iron......... that man will die |
| obverse 3' | ... there will be... barley in the land : small which in Nisannu 8? days |
| reverse 5 | ... he smote..., and |
| obverse 7' | ... the beginning of the year, when it emerges, it is favourable for the king of the land. |
| reverse 11 | ... from the... of the city |
| obverse 9' | ... Marduk, when he emerges in the beginning of his year, a fierce king of that land will go with him. |
| obverse 14' | If the gods confront each other and Adad thunders between them: Adad will devastate the land. |
| reverse 21 | ...... from |
| reverse 13 | (If) Adad thunders and he is stricken: he will die. |
| reverse 9 | ... in the wall |
| obverse 19' | The sanctuaries of Eridu will be filled with rejoicing. The wall of the cult centers will be erected. |
| obverse 5' | ... and between them Adad roared. The Tigris and Euphrates |
| reverse 22 | ... the king... the curse of Adad |
| obverse 11' | ... falls and Adad thunders: |
| obverse 15' | If in the middle of the moon and the sun Adad thunders: he will die. |
| reverse 14 | If Adad thunders in the middle of the 'finger' of the 'finger' and their star(s) are...: Adad of the land will come. |
| reverse 3 | ......... (gloss: new break) |
| reverse 2 | ... my................................, |
| reverse 23 | ... month of Bel- |
| reverse 8 | ... will die in the land... that man will die. |
| obverse 8' | The Numuda, Marduk, the Numuda, Adad which in Nisannu Adad thunders |
| obverse 21' | ...... |
| reverse 4 | ... Adad roars |
| obverse 18' | If in Taritu (Month VII), on the4.7th day: from the middle of Anu, the lord of the rites, he says: “Adad thunders.” |
| obverse 2' | (If) Adad thunders, the barley will diminish, which in the month Nisannu (I) |
| reverse 20 | ... and the moon are stricken, Adad roars |
| reverse 17 | .... they stand with me and a fire will fall. |
| reverse 19 | ... the days of the prince... : a lion(?)... for 7 months the princes... |
| reverse 15 | ...... the gods, the aaredtu-priests,... the city, the city, the city, the house, the house, the house of his brother, the place of the namgru-priest, the place of the river |
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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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