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K 01873 (P394113)
ARCHIVAL > Letter > Extispicy Query, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 01873 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394113 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | ARCHIVAL > Letter > Extispicy Query |
| 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? 6 | ... your |
| obverse? 4' | ... he entrusted to me. |
| obverse? 9' | ...... the breast-bone is on the left. |
| reverse? 2 | .... who decrees all the... |
| reverse? 3 | You take... the small... |
| obverse? 8' | ... the left of the gall bladder is surrounded by a fog. |
| reverse? 8 | ... like |
| obverse? 6' | ... the place of meat(?) |
| obverse? 11' | ... heart of a sheep is normal. |
| obverse? 10' | ... and the midst of |
| obverse? 7' | (If) a pregnant woman, she is seized by (her) heart |
| obverse? 2' | You set up a weapon(?) |
| reverse? 5 | ...... |
| reverse? 4 | ... are located on the left. |
| reverse? 1 | ... is located on the top of the left surface of the 'finger' of the 'weapon.' |
| obverse? 3' | ...... |
| reverse? 7 | ... his land is pure |
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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