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CT 40, pl. 23, K 01908 (P394118)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 23, K 01908 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394118 |
| 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 1 | If a snake... in a man's house.... |
| reverse 25 | If ditto he eats a lard |
| obverse 24 | If in the path or in the street, a man is ill and emerges. |
| reverse 9 | If a snake is seen on the right: a man will be stationed. |
| obverse 18 | If he dies in the street and stands there: |
| reverse 14 | If ditto. |
| obverse 22 | If a man is stricken in the path of a man and he sees a man: he will die. |
| obverse 2 | If ditto and its horns fall |
| obverse 21 | If ditto from the right to the left of the man a'station' is missing. |
| reverse 3 | (If) a snake |
| reverse 4 | If 2 heads of his |
| obverse 15 | If in the street a man goes behind |
| obverse 19 | If in the path of a man's man he is stricken |
| reverse 8 | If a snake is killed and there is a famine. |
| obverse 13 | If it is surrounded by a man's eyes and stands behind a man. |
| obverse 10 | If a man is covered in front of a man: |
| reverse 2 | (If) a sow |
| obverse 11 | If a man’s face is covered in a thigh: |
| reverse 19 | If in a god's temple |
| reverse 21 | If ditto (a man) appears in the temple of a god. |
| reverse 26 | If... ditto. |
| reverse 10 | If in the street of the gate... |
| reverse 1 | (If) a snake becomes visible: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| reverse 23 | (If) he is swollen in a man's house |
| reverse 5 | If his heads are 7: he will die. |
| obverse 28 | If ditto and... [...], |
| obverse 20 | If ditto.... |
| reverse 7 | If a snake is killed by an atrophied person |
| obverse 14 | If it stands in front of a man.... |
| obverse 26 | to the middle of the house seized. |
| obverse 12 | If in front of a man |
| obverse 7 | If a snake in the street from the right of a man to the left of a man: he will go. |
| obverse 27 | (If) ditto, ditto and their heads are 1 |
| obverse 8 | If he sees a man in the street: he will devastate. |
| obverse 3 | If a snake (is) a bad thing on a man. |
| obverse 4 | If a snake is seen: he will not acquire. |
| obverse 6 | If a snake is seen in a man's house. |
| reverse 11 | If ditto. |
| reverse 13 | If ditto. |
| reverse 22 | If ditto snakes : |
| reverse 16 | If ditto (a man) is present in the palace of the prince. |
| obverse 5 | If a snake is a mountain that has no hand |
| reverse 12 | If ditto....... |
| reverse 17 | If a snake is swollen in the street: |
| obverse 25 | If snakes are covered like a garden and |
| obverse 23 | If ditto and in front of a man, he will not ditto. |
| reverse 18 | If a sow gives birth and that illness enters the temple of a god. |
| reverse 20 | If ditto he sees a man in a god's temple : |
| reverse 6 | If his seven tongues |
| obverse 9 | If he sees a man and he does not exist |
| reverse 15 | (If) a snake is present |
| obverse 29 | If snakes become numerous and stand in the centre of the city and |
| obverse 17 | If ditto in the street and goes behind a man: |
| obverse 16 | If a man is ill in the street of a man and he goes in front of a man. |
| reverse 24 | If ditto (a planet is bright) : If ditto (a planet is bright) : a planet will kill him. |
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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