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K 02170 + K 03629 (P394232)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02170 + K 03629 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394232 |
| 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 10 | ...... and |
| reverse 5' | ... wife of a man, her wife, to kill... |
| reverse 19' | ... will not approach Mars. |
| top 2 | Written according to the original. |
| top 4 | abbi-ilni, chief scribe |
| reverse 32' | ... Venus approaches ulpa’e and |
| reverse 27' | ... there will be... wild animals. |
| obverse 15 | ... Zappu |
| reverse 4' | ... goes out to the sky.... Mars... to the Bristle. |
| reverse 17' | ... the throne will seize the land, the lord will have the usufruct of it. |
| obverse 9 | If the Pleiades approach the Pleiades: talent of date palms. |
| reverse 3' | ................ |
| reverse 16' | ... a hostile army seized the land |
| reverse 24' | ... approaches Mercury |
| reverse 30' | ... there will be... in the land. |
| reverse 36' | ... Sîn, on his return march,... |
| reverse 26' | ... Mars approaches Itar |
| obverse 8 | If the Bristle rises to the Pleiades: Adad will devastate, Mercury (and) Zappa will attack. |
| reverse 34' | The Elam star stands(?) |
| obverse 4 | there will be... |
| reverse 18' | ... for the ritual of the king a fire will fall. |
| reverse 21' | ... the Arrow approaches the Swallow and |
| reverse 8' | ... stands (?). Venus approaches the Furrow |
| reverse 20' | ...... he smote a flood and |
| reverse 7' | ...... and in it (means): in that year I will not live. |
| obverse 14 | ... the Furrow : Venus |
| reverse 11' | ... sees..., sees favorable faces. |
| reverse 28' | ... there will be no good in the land. There will be ama and Nisaba in the land and the land will expand. |
| reverse 6' | ... does not have.... |
| obverse 13 | ... Zappa rises |
| reverse 9' | ... there will be life for the servant and the woman in the palace. |
| reverse 10' | ... Mars approaches the King. |
| reverse 23' | ... will take place...: he will eat food. |
| obverse 11 | ... the Furrow rises and : Venus |
| top 3 | Tablet of Nabû-zuqup-ukin, son of Marduk-umu-iqia, the scribe. |
| reverse 22' | ... Mars is the place of the star. |
| reverse 33' | .... he is a nehhû-demon, he is speaking to a UL-demon. |
| reverse 13' | ... Venus towards Marduk... |
| top 1 | According to the word of..., the scepter of Babylon, Borsippa |
| obverse 2 | ... he will recover. : (If) he is a sheep, Mars will rise. |
| reverse 25' | ... In that month, the moon will place an eclipse |
| reverse 12' | Nisaba (is) the locust in front of its name. |
| obverse 6 | If a planet rises (and) Zappa dies |
| reverse 1' | ... the sons of the king... |
| reverse 29' | ... au, the sullû-demon of the land, seizes Mars to Venus. |
| obverse 12 | ... : enemy land... |
| obverse 5 | ... entnu-priestess of Adad will devastate |
| reverse 31' | ... approaches the Scales and |
| reverse 14' | ... there will be... locusts, and there will be... barley(?) |
| obverse 3 | ... there will be. Mars and Saturn will rise. |
| reverse 2' | ... Mars,... |
| reverse 35' | ... year: “......” |
| reverse 15' | ... Venus approaches Mercury |
| obverse 1 | ... the ram Til-Sagn (and) Mars rise. |
| obverse 7 | If the Bristle reaches the Scorpion: Adad will devastate, Apla and Mars. |
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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