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K 02123 (P394202)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Ištar (EAE 50–68), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02123 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394202 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Ištar (EAE 50–68) |
| 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 col 1 5' | If the Pleiades come close to the moon and stand... end of the city.... |
| reverse col 4 11 | If 2 stars rise in its midst: |
| reverse col 3 21' | If a great god... without his permission... |
| obverse col 1 3' | If the Pleiades come close to the moon and stand in front of the moon |
| reverse col 4 8 | If two stars stand below: in that year the king of the world will widen his understanding. |
| reverse col 3 18' | If a great god in his midst....... |
| reverse col 3 10' | If a great god comes out at his exit and like a rainbow there is a rainbow inside them: an eclipse will occur. |
| reverse col 4 7 | If the Moon, when it rises, goes behind it: the king(?) will come out of the hand(?) and he will not give birth to a young man. |
| obverse col 1 15' | If a man ditto approaches the moon and stands there: he will enter the moon. |
| reverse col 3 17' | If Itar... great... |
| reverse col 4 17 | (If) they sit down in cities, they will return to the harbû-field. |
| obverse col 1 13' | If a planet comes close to the moon and stands there:.... |
| reverse col 3 12' | If a great god at its appearance or on the 1st day or on the second day ditto, 2 stars stand on its right, 1 to its left: an eclipse will take place. |
| reverse col 4 12 | If 2 stars stand in its left side: he will become rich. |
| obverse col 1 11' | If the Well-being reaches the Moon and stands there: Sîn and(?). |
| reverse col 3 4' | If a star... the moon which stands on the left: there will be a strong king in the land. |
| reverse col 4 25 | If Jupiter, Venus, a planet and.... |
| obverse col 1 17' | If the Well-being stands on the moon and... |
| reverse col 4 1 | (If) a sorcerer - a man - is swollen on his neck and emerges from his neck: rain. |
| reverse col 4 6 | If the Moon at its body is surrounded by a halo: a star stands in its horn. |
| reverse col 4 14 | If a star is surrounded by a halo and emerges in its midst: a severe illness of the people. |
| reverse col 3 15' | If the Great God at his appearance places him on his right eye: that year is good. : If the Great God at his appearance places him on his left eye: that year rain. |
| obverse col 1 4' | If the Damu star approaches the front of the moon and stands there:.... |
| obverse col 1 9' | If the Pleiades come close to the moon and stand inside the moon: the king will die. |
| reverse col 4 4 | If 2 stars stand in front of them, horn to horn: the kings will turn the throne of their father. |
| reverse col 4 3 | The cities will not dwell; the threshing floor will be set up. |
| obverse col 1 7' | If the Scales come close to the front of the moon and stands there: the reign of the king will be long. |
| reverse col 4 24 | If the Scorpion stands in its left horn: the king of Akkad and the king of Marad will make an attack. |
| reverse col 3 2' | If a star ditto: the gods ditto: Sin ditto: king of the world, lord. |
| reverse col 4 18 | If the Moon is surrounded by a star and emerges from its left: a great king will make his hand evil. |
| obverse col 1 2' | If the Pleiades come close to the moon and stand.... |
| reverse col 3 16' | If the lungs of the great god are dark: that heaven will be bright; it will be bright. |
| reverse col 4 19 | In that month, the king of the world will die. |
| reverse col 3 3' | If ditto a name of the gods ditto Sin (and) he afflicts him: the king will die in his city. |
| reverse col 3 11' | If the great god comes out and emerges from his presence: a halo of abundance will be set up. |
| obverse col 1 1' | If the Field reaches the front of the moon and stands there: |
| obverse col 1 10' | If Mars approaches the front of the moon and stands there: the moon... evil. |
| reverse col 4 22 | If the stars stand on top of the moon: the king will die and will not acquire a rival. |
| reverse col 4 2 | If its horns are 3: the stars stand in the river. |
| reverse col 4 9 | If two stars become visible: the moon will become visible to the land and will not change (it). |
| reverse col 3 7' | If the stars become stationary on the side of the moon: the land will become confused. |
| obverse col 1 16' | If a man approaches the moon and he stands there. |
| reverse col 4 13 | You crush cows and sheep in the land. |
| obverse col 1 14' | If the Pleiades come close to the moon and stand there.... |
| reverse col 3 6' | If the great star(s) are seen: the moon will be cloudy. |
| reverse col 3 1' | If a star stands on the left of the moon and on the left of the moon: he will die and will experience the reign of the king. |
| reverse col 3 5' | If a star stands at the left: the mighty king will fall in the land. |
| reverse col 4 10 | If the stars are dark: the king will die and his land will prosper. |
| reverse col 3 14' | If the face of the great god is surrounded by a halo, and its face is covered with a hole: there will be famine. |
| reverse col 3 8' | If a great god emerges from the top of the sky, a lord's position: |
| reverse col 4 16 | If a star is struck and its right horn is swollen: the enemy will devastate the land. |
| obverse col 1 8' | If the Pleiades come close to Sin and stand there: there will be deaths. The king will be happy. |
| obverse col 1 12' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Moon and stands there: there will be enemy. |
| reverse col 4 20 | If the Moon? is surrounded by a star: until the middle of the night it stands 4 and 5 cubits. |
| obverse col 1 6' | If the Pleiades come close to the moon and stand inside the Moon: the king will die. :.... |
| reverse col 3 20' | If the great god... without his permission... |
| reverse col 4 21 | The king of the land will become hostile to the king of the land. |
| reverse col 4 26 | (If) my right side is thin: the enemy will conquer. ditto... the land will be built. |
| reverse col 3 9' | (If) it is raining in Nanna: an eclipse will take place. |
| reverse col 4 5 | The king is strong against the king and takes the throne. |
| reverse col 4 15 | If a star is surrounded by a halo and stands in its midst: attack of the palace. |
| reverse col 4 23 | If ditto he is surrounded by a halo: the Pleiades will devastate the land. |
| reverse col 3 19' | king of the world... |
| reverse col 4 27 | If the Moon at its appearance.......... there will be... in the land. |
| reverse col 3 13' | If the Well-being of the great god is surrounded by a halo at its appearance: three stars stand in front of 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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