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CT 28, pl. 44, K 00717 (P393835)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 28, pl. 44, K 00717 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393835 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 5 | (a kind of skin) |
| reverse 2 | In (the month) Addaru (XII), that man will die and his house will be scattered. |
| obverse 10 | If in ebtu (Month X), the gall bladder is split: the wife of the man will die. |
| reverse 4 | (If) he eats the land |
| obverse 2 | If in Ayyaru (Month I), the gall bladder is seized: the lord of the extispicy will die. |
| obverse 4 | If in Duuzu (Month IV) a gall bladder is seized by a god: that man will die. |
| obverse 6 | (If) in Ululu (Month VI) there is a hole: there will be frost in the land and a man's house will diminish. |
| reverse 3 | If in the month of Adar (XII) there will be famine, the owner of the extispicy will die. |
| obverse 7 | If in Taritu (Month VII), the gall bladder is broken either the brother or the wife of a man. |
| obverse 5 | (If) in Abu (Month V) there is a hole: destruction of cattle of a man. |
| reverse 1 | If in abau (Month XI) there will be famine in the land. |
| obverse 8 | If in Arasamna (VIII) there is a hole in the gall bladder: there will be frost and famine. |
| obverse 9 | If in Kislimu (Month IX) there is a hole in the gall bladder: there will be hostility in the land. |
| obverse 1 | If in Nisannu (Month I), the gall bladder is split: the prince will die. |
| obverse 3 | If in Simanu (Month III) the gall bladder is seized: the enemy will turn into my field and he will recover. |
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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