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AAT pl. 05 (K 2254) (P394296)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Sîn ina tāmartīšu; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AAT pl. 05 (K 2254) |
|---|---|
| ID | P394296 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Sîn ina tāmartīšu; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 6' | If Adad his rains, Ea his men in |
| reverse 8' | If a star flares up and its horn... the sky and does not reach your area. |
| reverse 23' | If... is black: it is located inside it and: alternatively, the stars flash. |
| reverse 22' | If a star flares up from the south and sets in the path and sets: the king will die in battle. |
| reverse 9' | If a star flares up and its horn is dark in... of heaven and does not reach your asurra. |
| reverse 20' | If a lightning flashes and two lightning flashes and the rear (of the moon) stands in the west. |
| obverse 6 | .... will rise and.... |
| reverse 14' | If a star flares up from its trunk to a snare and reaches its left horn: he heard (it) and reaches its left horn: he will conquer my army. |
| reverse 12' | (If) he is ill for my army: he will conquer my army. |
| reverse 19' | If a lightning flashes from a lightning flashes and stands until the west: in that month, 1 rain shower. |
| reverse 33' | (Property of) Gabbi-ilni-KAM, chief scribe. |
| obverse 10 | ... he will be well. |
| reverse 2' | ............... |
| reverse 15' | If a star flashes from the north to the east and goes down to the sky and its horn is yellow: the king will die. |
| reverse 31' | Tablet of Nabû-zuqup-ukin, son of Marduk-um-iqia |
| reverse 18' | If the Well-being reaches the middle of the 'finger': a 'weapon'-mark and is located: his 'weapons' will not come out. |
| reverse 29' | ... tablet. |
| reverse 25' | ... in the east of Akkad which is in the middle of the stars |
| reverse 5' | If a sow... is surrounded by a halo?: this sow will appear in an eclipse. |
| reverse 17' | If the Well-being reaches the middle of the 'finger': a 'weapon'-mark and it emerges: his 'weapons' will come out. |
| obverse 8 | ... in his month |
| obverse 7 | ... is seen at the appearance of the moon. |
| reverse 1' | ... was surrounded by a star and a aha-demon fell. |
| reverse 4' | If mehu... |
| obverse 5 | ... you recite |
| reverse 3' | ............ of Mars... |
| reverse 16' | (If) the West star reaches the star and sets: the stars emerge. |
| reverse 7' | If from the... of Adad his rains and Ea his men will return to the land |
| reverse 27' | (In) Nisannu (Month I), Ayyaru, Simanu, Akkad, Duuzu (Month V), Abu (Month VII), Elam, Taritu (Month VII), Kislimu (Month VII), Kislimu (Month IX), the Westland |
| obverse 12 | ...... month: "Gate of the 30th day," |
| obverse 2 | ... the Pleiades in front of the moon. |
| reverse 24' | in the east of Subartu |
| obverse 3 | ...... the Pleiades |
| obverse 16 | ... and |
| reverse 21' | If a lightning flashes from the ground, three lightning flashes and the rear (of the wall) stands (there). |
| obverse 15 | ... they go out and |
| obverse 1 | ... the atau-disease, the shatau-disease. |
| reverse 30' | ... according to the word(s) of..., the scribal art of Babylon, Borsippa |
| reverse 11' | If a star flares up all day from the trunk of a tree to the top of the tree and screams at the middle of the sky and hears: |
| reverse 13' | If a star flares up all day from the east to the east and sets in the middle of the sky: attack of a hostile enemy against my land. |
| obverse 9 | ... month, in Addaru (XII) with the moon at the appearance |
| reverse 28' | (In) ebtu (Month XI), Addaru (Month XII), Subartu (Month XII) |
| obverse 4 | ... shrines |
| reverse 10' | If a star flashes and its horn is swollen: in the asurraku-vessel it stands and its name stands from the 20th. |
| obverse 13 | ... they are weak and |
| obverse 14 | ... they are weak and |
| reverse 32' | scribe |
| reverse 26' | ... stands for ama and it is good for ama. |
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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