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K 02010 (P394135)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02010 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394135 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 10' | If a snake is red in a man's house: that man will become rich. |
| obverse 8' | ... : he will die. |
| obverse 12' | If a snake falls into a man's house: that house will dwell. |
| reverse 7 | If a snake enters a man's house: that house will be abandoned. |
| reverse 4 | That house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 4' | If a snake falls in a man's house: he will die. |
| reverse 3 | If a snake gives birth to a man in a man's house. |
| reverse 9 | shall return and give her sons for silver. |
| obverse 1' | If a snake... in a man's house: a bird.... |
| reverse 1 | If a snake is seen in a man's house: he will die. |
| obverse 3' | If a snake is swollen in a man's house: he will die. |
| obverse 7' | If a snake is seen in a man's house: the man's house will be destroyed. |
| reverse 2 | That house will be destroyed, its abode will be destroyed. |
| reverse 6 | That woman will have a god. |
| obverse 9' | If a snake... before a man's house. |
| obverse 11' | If a snake has 7 heads: in a man's house. |
| reverse 8 | If a snake is located on a chair: a man will die. |
| obverse 5' | If he is a nanny, he will become rich. |
| obverse 2' | If a snake... in a man's house: fall of a man's house. |
| reverse 10 | If a snake is swollen in the hand of a man and a woman: the wife and wife will die. |
| obverse 6' | If a snake is seen in a man's house: that man will do the work. |
| reverse 5 | If a snake is located on the surface of the asurrû-vessel: he will take it away from it 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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