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K 00953 (P393848)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 00953 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393848 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 1 | If the Moon at its appearance - the north wind blew; the land will become happy. |
| obverse 2 | ......... and |
| reverse 5 | ... he built. |
| obverse 10 | If the Moon at its....... |
| obverse 14 | ...... |
| obverse 5 | ... Sin |
| reverse 4 | ... at his appearance and his ita-siu, Izu-zuqup-ken |
| obverse 9 | ...... and |
| obverse 4 | ... Mercury |
| obverse 1 | ... the south wind |
| obverse 11 | If the Moon becomes visible and is seen.... |
| obverse 6 | ... Sin(?) |
| obverse 3 | ... : Urar |
| reverse 3 | If the Moon at its appearance - its right horn is not present. |
| obverse 13 | If the Moon at its appearance a horn is located inside it. |
| reverse 2 | The horn is thick. The horn is thick. The horn is thick. |
| obverse 8 | ...... and |
| obverse 12 | If the Moon...... does not see. |
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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