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K 02217 (P394272)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 9. Ḫašû, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02217 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394272 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 9. Ḫašû |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | ...... before... |
| 16' | ... her head cannot be shaken, with a weapon... the enemy in the city... he will kill our troops. |
| 10' | ... his... he has made her... |
| 32' | ... is split and appears in the mouth of a good utterance. |
| 40' | .... if (he is) a citizen, his king |
| 39' | ... if a enemy in my cities |
| 8' | ... the destruction of his land will take place. If the king... his lands... |
| 47' | ... grain...... |
| 22' | ... you take to the left, and you set out the enemy in a man's house. |
| 43' | ... and in the cities of the enemy will seize one city. |
| 37' | ...: the city of your right will become hostile to the enemy. |
| 18' | ... the enemy will come and seize the city. He will go on a campaign against its field, will not reach the enemy. |
| 11' | ...... which enters...... |
| 3' | ... my city, I did not ascend... |
| 31' | ... the enemy will kill me. |
| 25' | ... ditto and good fortune are present in the city. The front of the enemy's land is split and it emerges from the mouth of a favorable storm. |
| 17' | ... the middle of the left lung is seen: the enemy will become happy upon him. |
| 45' | ... who listens to prayers in a land... |
| 9' | ... stand...: the king will die and... |
| 14' | ... the prince will be happy over his land. If the prince... the lands(?)... with a weapon I will kill. |
| 44' | ... her... the curse of a city will seize the front of the enemy and attack the enemy's property. |
| 26' | ... ditto and he will die. A servant will seize his owner in a rebellion. |
| 24' | ... the 15th, a "fall of death" of the gods, the labor of the prince's army will go and the son of the king's father will seize his father's son. |
| 7' | ... his mighty |
| 15' | ... the land will become rich and he will reach the highest rank. |
| 30' | ... Mercury, who dwells in the city, (and) your right to the land, |
| 42' | ... enters the place and emerges from the center of the city. |
| 29' | ... you place... on the right and left of the city. |
| 35' | ... with her, you take a wild bull from the mountain. |
| 27' | (If)...: the enemy will seize the right side of the city and seize the woman. |
| 33' | (If)... is dark: the city will be scattered and enter it. |
| 20' | If the middle of the 'finger' of the lung comes close to the right and is covered in a 'weapon'-mark: the enemy will fall and attack the enemy. |
| 4' | ...... |
| 34' | ... is surrounded and enters into it and sits between it: illness. |
| 6' | ..... the one who is enraged, speak... |
| 36' | ... of the enemy, you take in hand... |
| 23' | ..... and her foundations... I will go to the sword in battle. |
| 19' | ... and its redness is not smitten. With the weapon of the troops... and the enemy... |
| 21' | (If) he approaches the right side of the 'finger' of the lung and his base is smashed with a weapon: the army will be killed. |
| 12' | ... the city will give and my people will be sold. |
| 48' | ... if... |
| 46' | ... there will be... in the ground and the enemy will come out in my path. |
| 13' | ... the enemy will give his gaze to the city and his days will be long. |
| 38' | You place... in the sukuptu-vessel of my army. If a pregnant woman a man’s house |
| 41' | ... of the city, my right side... |
| 2' | ... the king... |
| 28' | he has made the strewn lamassu-spirit rise. |
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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