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ACh Ishtar 31 (P394168)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ACh Ishtar 31 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394168 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2 6' | If a snake is located on the left: the king of the city of his enemy : his days.... |
| col 2 9' | If Marduk is ill: there will be deaths in the land. |
| col 2 2' | If Dilbad is located: fall of kingship. |
| col 2 3' | Whoever in this year, all the lands, my lord |
| col 1 1' | ... will die |
| col 2 5' | If the Scales is elevated: the land will widen. |
| col 2 11' | If a star reaches their normal length:... the king of the land will die. |
| col 2 7' | If the Crab is located on the left: female and female kings... in... |
| col 2 1' | If Mars is located on the bank: the great gods... |
| col 1 5' | The great(?) |
| col 2 12' | The land's foot... ditto, their barley is... to the king. |
| col 1 2' | ... will die |
| col 1 3' | ... will die |
| col 2 4' | If the Twins become stationary: the king of Amurru will die and the land will be destroyed. |
| col 1 4' | ...... |
| col 2 8' | If the Yoke Constellation is present: the king of the land will die and he will dwell in the land. The throne will seize... |
| col 2 10' | the lands will enter the city. |
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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