K 02173 (P394234)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Ištar (EAE 50–68), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02173 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394234 |
| 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 4' | ... and Til-duri...... will die in the land. |
| obverse 19' | ... the son(?) of the scribal art |
| obverse 16' | He enters the throne and sets the gods in order. He sets up the rites of the temples. |
| reverse 11' | ... rain will rain. If the flood will come, if the storm will come, |
| obverse 11' | ... to Ul-Sagmegar... the field, the head of the arid land... |
| reverse 5' | ... the Star of Ibanitu is seen in the east and stands in the path of the sky in the east. |
| reverse 7' | ... is seen in the east or in the east. |
| reverse 13' | ... in that year, the king of the land of Elam will die. |
| reverse 14' | ... of Akkad will be scattered and the king of Akkad will die. |
| obverse 10' | ... a liar rises and approaches Nergal. |
| reverse 9' | ... ama rises. The stars appear in the evening. |
| obverse 13' | ... ulpa’ea... |
| obverse 3' | ... in that year, the field... |
| obverse 15' | If a sheep comes close to a sheep: the furrow will take place. |
| obverse 17' | If a sheep comes close to a sheep: the son of the king who in(?) the city(?) |
| reverse 1' | ......... |
| reverse 12' | ... name of an eclipse if in the sky the fish are seen(?) |
| reverse 15' | ... floods and rains |
| reverse 10' | ...... and a tumuli which goes up, it is the star. |
| reverse 3' | ... stands there and... |
| obverse 8' | ... the lord of the netherworld will rise and Erra will devour the land. There will be deaths. |
| reverse 2' | ... lions will die and....... |
| obverse 2' | ... that... deaths |
| obverse 7' | ... the end of the mountain and passes it by. |
| reverse 8' | ... goes to the heavens, and as much as there is, |
| obverse 5' | ... Enlil-duri rises and has ceased there, a strong fate will be established in the land. |
| obverse 12' | ... the king will send angry messages to the king; there will be a severe flood; the harvest will give birth to a severe flood; in the evening, there will be a severe flood. |
| reverse 4' | ... stands there. In the middle of the moon the lions die and the goats... |
| obverse 9' | ... (If) a liar rises and he flees, there will be famine in the land. |
| obverse 6' | ... Dildild rises and is surrounded by a great weapon. Erra is mighty in the land. |
| reverse 6' | ...... The king, the day of the heavens, shall be rejoicing and in the east in the path of ama |
| obverse 14' | ... goes out to Jupiter: there will be a severe flood in the land. |
| reverse 16' | ...... are present |
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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